Who were the little rock nine ?
1 Answer
The Little Rock Nine were nine black students who enrolled in a formerly all-white school in Little Rock, Arkansas during September of 1957.
Explanation:
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine black students who had enrolled in a formerly all-white school in Little Rock, Arkansas in September of 1957.
Their attendance at Central High School was testing Brown v.s Board of Education, a 1945 Supreme Court ruling that abolished segregation in public schools.
September 4, 1957 was the first day of school at Central High, when Governor Orval Faubus called the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the black students from entering the high school.
Later that month, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock to escort the nine black students into the school.
Read more about The Little Rock Nine here:
(https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration)
