The Little Rock Nine are able to enter classes at the Little Rock Central High School for the first time after President Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army to Little Rock to enforce desegregation and protect the students from hostile mobs.
Before this intervention, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had used the state's National Guard to block the students from attending the school to "preserve the peace" Eisenhower's Federalization of the entire 10,000 member Arkansas National Guard took them out out of Governor Faubus's control. More
Black student Elizabeth Eckford is jeered by white student Hazel Bryan as she attempts to enter Little Rock Central High School.
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