A Mixture is Formed (There goes the Neighborhood)

We live in a society which holds the belief of "Change is good/different is good" and while there are those select few that will never completely believe that, for the most part, it's adapting. So many different components of American history allowed this to occur (i.e. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, etc), but one group of individuals no older than us sophomores to make a significant change was the Little Rock Nine.
For those unfamiliar with this group of teenagers who made such a big movement toward African American rights, the Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American teenagers who attended Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Until they arrived, this was a segregated Caucasian school and though they made a difference later on, at the time of their arrival, they were an invasion.
To even try and imagine what were going through the heads of the children (of both races) is quite difficult and only they will know, but for the Caucasian children I'd imagine such thoughts as "Why are THEY here?" and "They don't belong here" are some mildly stated words. The main reason for such an outburst this made was not only, in my opinion, because of racism, but their comfort zone or "neighborhood" was being disrupted. What they were used to and had grown up with was changing and naturally, reacted in the way they had seen and experienced which happened to be with racist, threatening comments. They didn't want someone or, in the minds of many Caucasians at the time, someTHING disrupting what had been so good all these years.
As for the African American students and their parents, I'm sure they began to wonder whether their being enrolled in this school was worth the death/lynch threats, yelling and serious glares. Unlike the Caucasian students, there were ONLY 9 African Americans. They were being put into a situation where adaptation was harder and probably felt as if the weight of the world was put on their shoulders. But what they didn't know then was that they were setting a trend/precedent for those of future generations.
Because of this "force" of change, similar to that of Christopher Columbus and the Native Americans, there are now integrated schools where children of all races can come and learn and befriend each other. While at the time, people didn't want such a thing to occur and the normalcy for that time and era was broken, it had better results than many in that time period could ever have imagined. While the "neighborhood" disappeared so to say, it created an entirely new, different and integrated community for the generations following this, and the Little Rock 9 was only one of many groups/people to contribute to this.