The Little Rock Nine were nine African American high-school studentsāMelba Pattillo, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls, Jefferson Thomas, Gloria Ray, and Thelma Mothershedāwho enrolled at the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. Their attempt to attend the school met fierce resistance from white protesters and Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus, who initially deployed the Arkansas National Guard to block their entrance.
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