The Little Rock Nine became the center of the struggle to desegregate public schools in the United States, especially in the South. Their enrollment at Little Rock Central High School provoked national debate about racial segregation and civil rights and became a major test of whether the federal government would enforce the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision in the face of state and local resistance.
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