It commemorated the first time the Little Rock Nine walked through the doors ... and Melba Pattillo Beals walked through the front doors of Central High School. Though not without a fight.

25, 1957, escorted nine African-American students, dubbed the Little Rock Nine, into Little Rock Central High School to finally begin regular classes of the school year three weeks after initially ...

In 1957, nine Black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School. The school had been all-white since its construction in 1927. Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green ...

The students who integrated Central High School were known as the Little Rock Nine. For three weeks in September 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus used the National Guard to block the Black ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The nine black teenagers who integrated Little Rock's Central High School in September 1957 all went on to seek higher education. Eight remain alive. While they're most ...

The students who integrated Central High School were known as the Little Rock Nine. For three weeks in September 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus used the National Guard to block the Black ...

Minnie Brown, 15; Thelma Mothershed, 16; two of the nine negro students barred from the Little Rock Central High School and Mrs. L.C. Bates, president of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP in court ...