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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 ...
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 ...
On Sept. 25, 1957, two days after a large, white mob turned violent outside Little Rock Central High School, nine black teenagers returned with federal troops. While they're most known ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mothershed Wair was the eldest of the Little Rock Nine. She and eight other students ... Jefferson Thomas and Carlotta Walls — integrated Central High School in Little Rock in September ...