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HISTORY IN PICTURES
THE LITTLE ROCK NINE
Under the watchful eye of paratroopers of the 101st Airborne
Division, nine black students attend Central High School in
Little Rock, Arkansas, for the first time. Despite a Supreme
Court ruling that American schools had to desegregate,
black students were initially barred from entering the
formerly white-only school by an angry mob and
state officials. President Eisenhower sent in
the troops to uphold the law.
1957
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