The Little Rock Nine were a group of African-American students who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High
School
in 1957. The ensuing Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were
initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by
Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, and then attended after the intervention
of President Eisenhower, is considered to be one of the most important
events in the African-American
Civil Rights Movement.
On their first day of school, troops from the Arkansas National Guard
would not let them enter the school and they were followed by mobs
making threats to lynch
