The little rock nine article

Led by Arkansas NAACP president Daisy Gaston Bates, nine Black students took on the task of testing the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 landmark ruling of Brown v. Board of Education, which declared that segregation was unconstitutional in American public schools.

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 students were: Minnijean Brown, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Gloria Ray, Melba Pattillo, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, Carlotta Walls and Elizabeth Eckford.

President Eisenhower had to employ military force to keep the peace

Eight of the students carpooled together, but because her family didn't have a phone, Eckford couldn't be reached. Thus, she arrived by herself, which is how the famous photograph transpired of her coolly walking towards the school entrance with a notebook in