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Little Rock Nine enter Central High

The 1957 integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas


 * Ernest Green,Elizabeth Eckford,Jefferson Thomas,Dr. Terrence Roberts,Carlotta Walls Lanier,Minnijean Brown Trickey,Gloria Ray Karlmark,Thelma Mothershed-Wair,Melba Pattillo Beals. **

The integration of public schools. These students were aware that they were entering into a "white" high school. They didn't worry about fitting in. Most whites, including the governor at the time, Orval Faubus, stood against them. Most troubling to the students was the fact that many blacks thought that the integration of Central would cause more trouble for their race than good.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic //Brown v. Board of Education// on May 17, 1954. The decision declared all laws establishing segregated schools to be unconstitutional and it called for the desegregation of all schools throughout the nation.

==ID SAY A SEVEN BECAUSE IT HELPED TO LET THE NATION TO REALLY SEE HOW BLACKS WERE BEING TREATED EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD LAWS.THEY WERE LETTING THE COUNTRY KNOW THAT THINGS ARE STILL GOING WRONG BUT IF THEYRE NOT GOING TO ENFORCE THEM THEN THEY ARENT GOING TO LISTEN==