The first Black students to enroll at Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., leave the building and walk toward a waiting Army station wagon following their classes on Oct. 2, 1957. Ferd Kaufman/AP ...

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 Rock ...

History always repeats itself, but what happens if you never learn your lesson the first time? As President Donald Trump continues his deportation mandate, many are concerned his disregard for court ...

Storied Little Rock Central High School ... and flooded the lawn of the historic institution, where in 1957 nine Black students were escorted by federal troops to enforce the landmark Supreme ...

Now five of the Little Rock Nine are speaking out ... and the state legislature to restrict what students can learn about Black history. The Sanders administration said recently that the state ...

Led by Arkansas NAACP president Daisy Gaston Bates, nine Black students took ... governor Orval Faubus, the Little Rock Nine made their way to Central High. The students were: Minnijean Brown ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! The Little Rock Nine were the first Black students who attempted to integrate the then all White Little Rock Central High School following the ...

As ever, an unruly mob lay in wait, which turned ugly when they mistook a group of black journalists for the Little Rock Nine. In the maelstrom of unchecked violence, the students slipped through a ...

Thelma Mothershed Wair, one of nine Black students who became known as the Little Rock Nine for integrating a high school in 1957 in an explosive confrontation during the civil rights struggle ...

Credit: Will Counts Collection/Indiana University Eckford and other members of the Little Rock Nine, those Black students who suffered to integrate the previously all-white Central High in 1957 ...

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