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The Little Rock Nine were the first nine black students that went to Little Rock Central High School in 1957, which was an all white school. The students faced fervent backlash and abuse from white students as well as the Little Rock community. The integration of Central High School is considered a pivotal event in the nation-wide integration movement, and the Civil Rights Movement in general.
they were nine academically outstanding (did well in school) high school students which were african-american. They were sent to Central HighSchool in Little Rock Arkansa and were the first black students to be intergrated with whites in schools
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He was the one to call out the national gaurd to prevent the little rock 9 from entering the all white highschool. He did not want to desegregate any Arkansas schools and was VERY rasict
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Integration of Central high School in Little rock, Arkansas.
A school that went through integration around 1957.
federal troops were sent.
Dwight Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock to force integration of Central High there.
Eisenhower was the President in 1957 when the crisis over integration occurred at Little Rock Central High School.
The 1957 integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas lends its name to the nine students who were chosen to be the first blacks to enter that school.
Arkansas governor Orval Faubus.-Novanet
The Little Rock Nine were the first nine black students that went to Little Rock Central High School in 1957, which was an all white school. The students faced fervent backlash and abuse from white students as well as the Little Rock community. The integration of Central High School is considered a pivotal event in the nation-wide integration movement, and the Civil Rights Movement in general.
The integration of black students into Little Rock Central High School is the subject of this story.
He sent federal troops to oversee the integration of Central High School in Little Rock
"Little Rock Nine" refers to the nine African American students who were the first to integrate the previously all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. The students faced fervent backlash and abuse from white students as well as the Little Rock community. The integration of Central High School is considered a pivotal event in the nation-wide integration movement, and the Civil Rights Movement in general.
"Little Rock Nine" refers to the nine African American students who were the first to integrate the previously all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. The students faced fervent backlash and abuse from white students as well as the Little Rock community. The integration of Central High School is considered a pivotal event in the nation-wide integration movement, and the Civil Rights Movement in general.