The Little Rock Nine helped advance the integration of public schools and the development of the American civil rights movement. Their experiences demonstrated both the federal government’s willingness to enforce desegregation and the persistence of organized resistance to racial integration. Their struggle became part of broader efforts to integrate schools and other public areas throughout the United States following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education and continuing into the 1960s.
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