![]() ![]() Faubus said it was for the safety of the nine students. On Septemthe night prior to what was to be the teens' first day in Central High classrooms, Arkansas governor Orval Faubus ordered the state's National Guard to block their entrance. This idea was explosive for the community and, like much of the South, it was fraught with anger and bitterness. Three years earlier, following the Supreme Court ruling, the Little Rock school board pledged to voluntarily desegregate its schools. The "Little Rock Nine," as the nine teens came to be known, were to be the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School. The Board of Education, of all that was in store for our nation in the years to come. It wasn't until September 1957 when nine teens would become symbols, much like the landmark decision we know as Brown v. The Board of Education, has become iconic for Americans because it marked the formal beginning of the end of segregation.īut the gears of change grind slowly. In 1954 the United States Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were illegal. ![]()
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