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4th September 1957: Black students denied entry to Little Rock High School
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:02:53
Publish Date: 2017-09-03 21:05:21
Description: On the 4th September 1957 a group of nine black schoolchildren were prevented from entering the previously segregated Little Rock Central High School by the Arkansas National Guard acting on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. The Little Rock Crisis gained national attention, and was only resolved when President Eisenhower intervened and sent troops from the 101st Airborne Division to protect the nine students. The desegregation of American schools began after the United States Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional to segregate public schools on the grounds of race in the historic ruling on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, ...
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