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Little Rock Central High School remained segregated three years after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 due to strong local resistance to desegregation. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus opposed integration and deployed the National Guard to prevent African American students from entering the school in 1957. This defiance of federal law highlighted the deep-rooted racial tensions and the struggle for civil rights in the South during that era. It wasn't until federal intervention and the presence of the U.S. Army that the students, known as the "Little Rock Nine," were able to attend the school.

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