Modern Era · North America · Politics
1957
Little Rock Nine
September 25, 1957
Nine Black students tried to integrate Central High School in Little Rock and were blocked at the door by an Arkansas National Guard on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower federalized the Guard and sent the 101st Airborne. Soldiers escorted the children inside. The federal government had returned to the South in paratrooper boots.
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Also in 1957 (5 other events on record)
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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