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The Little Rock Nine
A carpool mix-up left Elizabeth Eckford walking alone through a screaming crowd of white protesters in 1957. She was just trying to get to her first day at Central High School.
Eight other black students joined her fight to integrate the all-white school, facing soldiers and mobs along the way. Here’s what unfolded, all documented at the historic site you can tour today.
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Faubus Interrupts Lucy to Deploy Troops
Governor Orval Faubus broke into the “I Love Lucy Show” on Labor Day night, September 2, 1957. He told Arkansas viewers he was sending the National Guard to Central High School…