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Under the glare of an angry mob of white students, 1,200 armed soldiers, media cameras and pro-segregationist governor Orval Faubus, the Little Rock Nine made their way to Central High. The ...
The Little Rock Nine were the first African American students to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which declared ...
On Sept. 25, 1957, nine black students had to be escorted by federal troops through an angry mob of white people as they walked toward the doors of a previously all-white high school in Little ...
Thelma Mothershed Wair, one of the nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas’ capital city of Little Rock in 1957 while a mob of white segregationists yelled threats and ...
In the fall of 1957, nine Black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School, the country’s first test for school integration after the 1954 Supreme Court Brown v.
HII, the largest shipbuilder in the U.S., revealed on Wednesday, July 2, that Virginia-class submarine Arkansas (SSN 800) was ...
Wair was one of nine African-American students to enroll at Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The students were initially blocked from entering the school, but ultimately were able to ...
Thelma Mothershed Wair, one of the nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas' capital city of Little Rock in 1957 while a mob of white segregationists yelled threats and insults ...