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History > 20th century > USA > Civil rights > School desegregation > Little Rock, Arkansas late 1950s
Little Rock Arkansas
Date taken: 1959
Photographer: Francis Miller
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High school student showing cards he is handing out.
Location: Little Rock, AR, US Date taken: September 1958
Photographer: Francis Miller
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Jefferson Allison Thomas 1942-2010
One of the nine black students who integrated an all-white high school in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957 in a landmark confrontation of the civil rights movement
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The Little Rock Nine presented the first major test of the federal government’s ability to enforce a 1954 Supreme Court ruling that outlawed racial segregation in public schools. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/us/07thomas.html
https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/littlerock/overview.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/us/07thomas.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/09/06/obit.thomas.little.rock.9/?hpt=T1
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/06/national/main6839698.shtml
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/07/
Little Rock, Arkansas 1959
Protestors against school integration by supporting a governor who supports their views.
Location: Little Rock, AK, US Date taken: August 1959
Photographer: Francis Miller
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A protestor speaking out against school integration.
Location: Little Rock, AK, US Date taken: July 1959
Photographer: Francis Miller
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Pro-segregation rally headed by racist school board members.
Location: Little Rock, AR, US Date taken: May 1959
Photographer: Stan Wayman
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High school students sitting in the integrated school.
Location: Little Rock, AR, US Date taken: September 1958
Photographer: Francis Miller
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/
Sept. 23, 1957
President Dwight Eisenhower orders 1,000 U.S. Army paratroopers and 10,000 National Guardsmen to restore order to Little Rock, Arkansas, and escort nine black students into the previously all-white Central High School
Operation Arkansas: A Different Kind of Deployment Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the Little Rock Nine students into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. Photo: U.S. ARmy Photo by Courtesy of the National Archives
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:101st_Airborne_at_Little_Rock_Central_High.jpg
Little Rock Integration
Minnijean Brown (C), 15, along w. 6 other black students, being blocked by the AK National Guard bent on keeping them fr. entering Central High School, by order of Gov. Orval Faubus.
Location: Little Rock, AK, US Date taken: September 04, 1957
Photographer: Francis Miller
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Little Rock Integration
Four teenagers of the "Little Rock Nine" walking along sidewalk as they are turned away from entering Central High School by Arkansas National Guardsmen under orders fr. Gov. Orval Faubus.
Location: Little Rock, AK, US
Date taken: September 04, 1957
Photographer: Francis Miller
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Little Rock Integration Teenager Elizabeth Eckford (L) w. snarling white parents following as she is turned away fr. entering Central High School by Arkansas National Guardsmen under orders fr. Gov. Orval Faubus.
Location: Little Rock, AK, US Date taken: September 04, 1957
Photographer: Francis Miller
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1957
Little Rock, Arkansas
White pupils walkout of the Central High School after eight Blacks went in
https://www.theguardian.com/century/1950-1959/
1957
Eight black children are escorted to school in Little Rock, Arkansas, as part of forced school integration http://www.theguardian.com/world/1957/oct/04/usa.fromthearchive
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/01/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/1957/oct/04/
Arkansas Governor Orval Eugene Faubus 1910-1994
Faubus speaking to a crowd protesting the integration of Little Rock schools Little Rock, 1959. Rally at state capitol. Photograph shows a group of people, one holding a Confederate flag, surrounding speakers and National Guard, protesting the admission of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High School. 20 August 1959
Photographer: John T. Bledsoe
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Little_Rock_Nine_protest.jpg
Primary source Source Library of Congress, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.03120/
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/07/20/reviews/970720.20cartert.html
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