Little Rock Nine

The Little Rock Nine is a group of African-American students who were in the Little Rock Central High School, Arkansas in 1957, following the Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education II. This started the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were stopped from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. They attended after president Eisenhower sent the United States Army to let them in. This is thought to be one of the most important events in the Civil Rights Movement.

Little Rock Nine Media

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  The nine students greeting New York mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. in 1958

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  101st Airborne escorting the Little Rock Nine to school

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  Young U.S. Army paratrooper in battle gear outside Central High School, on the cover of Time magazine (October 7, 1957)

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  Student watching high school classes on TV during 1959 school year when schools were physically shutdown

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  Segregationists protesting the integration of Central High School at the state capitol, 1959

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  Three members of the "Little Rock Nine" (L-R) Ernest Green, Carlotta Walls LaNier, and Terrence Roberts – stand together on the steps of the LBJ Presidential Library in 2014

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  Memorial at Arkansas State Capitol

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  The obverse of the 2007 Little Rock Central High School Desegregation silver dollar designed by Richard Alan Masters