In 1957, the Little Rock Nine faced violent resistance while integrating Central High School. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent the 101st Airborne to protect the students and ...
Nine courageous teenagers walked into Little Rock Central High School while an angry White segregationist resistance made Arkansas the center of an international civil rights crisis. In February 1956, ...
In 1957, Terrence Roberts was one of nine Black students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School. Sixty-nine years later, Roberts thinks "we have not reached that point where everybody in this ...