The students desegregated Little Rock Central High School. Seventy years after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision ended racial segregation in public schools, members of ...

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 ...

Several surviving members of the Little Rock Nine, a group of students who in 1957 integrated Little Rock Central High School under threats ... the most recognizable images of the abuse inflicted ...

into Little Rock Central High School to finally begin regular classes of the school year three weeks after initially being prevented by Gov. Orval Faubus who called on the National Guard to stop ...

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 ...