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   When did black students enter Central High School?

   • Nine Black students enter all‑white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas on September 25, 1957, after a federal court ordered racial integration at the school.

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   What happened at Central High School?

   • Under escort from the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, nine Black students enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas on September 25, 1957. Three weeks earlier, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had surrounded the school with National Guard troops to prevent its federal court-ordered racial integration.

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   How many black students attended Central High School in 1957?

   • By 1957, seven out of Arkansas’ eight state universities were integrated. In the spring of 1957, there were 517 Black students who lived in the Central High School district. Eighty expressed an interest in attending Central in the fall, and they were interviewed by the Little Rock School Board, which narrowed down the number of candidates to 17.

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   Who was the first African American to graduate from Central High School?

   • Ernest Green was the first African American to graduate from Central High School. When integration began on September 4, 1957, the Arkansas National Guardwas called in to "preserve the peace".

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   How many black students went to Central School?

   • With advocacy from the NAACP, the school board approved about 80 Black students for transfer to Central the following year. But that number fell to 10 after the students were told that they could not participate in extracurricular activities and that their parents might lose their jobs.

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   What happened at Central High School in 1957?

   • The Mother’s League held a sunrise service at the school on September 3 as a protest against integration. But that afternoon, federal judge Ronald Davies issued a ruling that desegregation would continue as planned the next day. The Little Rock Nine arrived for the first day of school at Central High on September 4, 1957.

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   Jan 29, 2010 · On September 4, 1957, the first day of classes at Central High, Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the Black students’ entry into the high school. Later...

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   Nov 24, 2009 · Nine Black students enter all‑white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas on September 25, 1957, after a federal court ordered racial integration at the school.

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   Several segregationist councils threatened to hold protests at Central High and physically block the black students from entering the school. Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to support the segregationists on September 4, 1957.

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   Sep 1, 2017 · The crowd gathered outside Little Rock Central High School. The military men were ordered by Governor Orval Faubus to surround the school and prevent Black students from entering the...

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   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. Three years earlier, following the Supreme Court ruling, the Little Rock school board pledged to voluntarily desegregate its schools.

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   Oct 4, 2023 · On September 4, the nine Black students attempted to enter Central High. The students had planned to meet and enter as a group; though one student, Elizabeth Eckford, did not receive this news and attempted to enter the school by herself, only to be threatened and harassed by an angry mob of segregationists.

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   Sep 25, 2020 · Only white students were allowed to enter Central High School on Sept. 5, 1957, a day after the Arkansas National Guard prevented Black students from attending classes despite integration orders from a federal judge.