On September 1957, a group of nine black students that enrolled at previously all white Central High School in the Little Rock, Arkansas
3 years before they had arrived, the Supreme court V Brown case Little Rock School board promised to desegregate it's schools.
This it for your safety - Governor Orval Faubus
September 2, 1957 the night before the nine's first day of school, governor Orval Faubus order Little Rock National Guard to block the entrance.
Let them in and attend class
September 4, 24 hours after a federal judge commanded to let the nine students attend classes right away, an angry mob and Little Rock's national guard blocked the entrance
16 days later the judge demanded the National guards be removed. The nine students were escorted by police into the school through a side door
They attended only 3 hours of class and was sent home due to safety risk from the mobs.
I shall federalize the National guard and sent in the U.S troops
We must ensure the safety of these nine students
Protected by the National guards and the Army's 101st Airborne, the nine students were able to go to class without problems and completed their first full day
Even thought with many set backs with governor Faubus closing his school for a year because of desegregation rules.
Ernest Green became the first African American senior to graduate from Little Rock Central High in Spring on May 27, 1958!!!!!