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Segregation at Little Rock Central High School
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Central High School complies with the court
The Little Rock Central High School Board told the court that they would go along with whatever they decided wether to let African-Americans into the school or not. Eventually the court decided it would be against the Fourteenth Amendment to not let them in. -
Brown II
Supreme Court handed down a second ruling called Brown II. The court delegated the task of carrying out school desegregation to district courts with orders that desegregation occur "with all deliberate speed." -
Faubus sends National Guard
Governor Orval Faubus sends the National Guard to stop African Americans from attending Little Rock Central High School as part of federally ordered racial desegregation. -
Elizabeth Ecford
Elizabeth Ecford along with the other eight African-American students were stopped from entering the school. As Ecford tried to enter the school National Guard Soldiers got in her way so she made her way back to the bus stop through a mob of about 400 segregationists who surrounded her and threatened her. -
An Angry Mob
Little Rock Nine face a huge angry mob of students and other civilians when trying to enter the school. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine African-American students integrate with white students at Central High School in Little Rock. President Eisenthower sent federal troops to intervene on behalf of the students saftey. -
Minnie Jean Brown
Minnie Jean Brown was one of the Little Rock Nine, she faced 1,200 armed soldiers and faced an angry mob to help desegregation. -
Ernest Green
Ernest Green was the first of the Little Rock Nine to graduate from Central High School
