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1957 : members of the 101st Airborne Division helped to protect the "Little Rock Nine" which were a group of African-American children .

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They were the first black students to integrate the high school at Little Rock, Arkansas. Eisenhower had to call out the army to protect them because the Governor of Arkansas tried to block them from coming to the school.


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The governor of Arkansas who refused to integrate Central High School in Little Rock was Orval Faubus. In 1957, he deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African American students, known as the Little Rock Nine, from entering the school. His actions sparked a significant national crisis and led to federal intervention, including the deployment of U.S. Army troops to ensure the students' safety and enforce integration. Faubus's stance against integration was emblematic of the broader resistance to civil rights in the South during that era.


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