Little Rock Nine Timeline

By DelaneyC43

  • Abraham Lincoln delivers the Emancipation Proclemation

  • Little Rock Central High opens

  • Paul Laurence Dunbar High for African American Students opens

  • Brown v. Board of Education

  • Superintendent Virgil Blossom announces intention to comply with Brown v. Board

  • NAACP petitions the Little Rock School Board for immediate integration integration

  • Brown II

  • LRSD adopts a phased plan of integration

  • 27 African Americans attempt to enroll at Central High but are refused enrollment

  • Aaron v. Cooper for immediate desegregation

  • Southern Manifesto denounces the Supreme Courts decision

  • Orval Faubus calls in National Guard to prevent the African American Students entry

  • Mothers League sunrise service protest

  • Little Rock Nines first day of school

  • Judge Davies ordered the National Guard to be removed

  • Police escort the nine students into school

  • First full day of classes for the African American students

  • Ernest Green graduates