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    The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed...
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    the civil rights movement. Central is located at the intersection of Little Rock Nine Way (a section of Park Street, designated in September 2022) and Daisy...
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  • Nine from Little Rock is a 1964 American short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim about the Little Rock Nine, the first nine African-American...
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    Minnijean Brown-Trickey (category Little Rock Nine)
    figure who was a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African American teenagers who integrated Little Rock Central High School. The integration...
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    Thelma Mothershed-Wair (category Little Rock Nine)
    the Little Rock Nine group who attended Little Rock's Central High School following the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education court case. The Little Rock Nine...
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    Little Rock (Quapaw: I’i-zhinka, lit. 'Little rock') is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The city's population was 202...
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    of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central...
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    Elizabeth Eckford (category Little Rock Nine)
    October 4, 1941) is an American civil rights activist and one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students who, in 1957, were the first...
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    Hazel Massery (category Activists from Little Rock, Arkansas)
    Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, during the Little Rock Crisis. On September 4, 1957, nine African-American students entered Little Rock Central High School...
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  • Jefferson Thomas (category Little Rock Nine)
    of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central...
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    Melba Pattillo Beals (category Little Rock Nine)
    member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of black students who were the first to racially integrate Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas...
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    Ernest Green (category Little Rock Nine)
    of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central...
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  • Virgil Blossom (category Little Rock Nine)
    Blossom is best known for his time in Little Rock, Arkansas as Superintendent of Schools (1953–1958) during the Little Rock Crisis. In 1955, after the Supreme...
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    segregation and discrimination. The Little Rock Nine, a group of Black students who enrolled in the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957...
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  • Daisy Bates (activist) (category Little Rock Nine)
    publisher, journalist, and lecturer who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957. Daisy Bates was born on November 11, 1914...
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  • service 1957 – Little Rock, Arkansas school desegregation. Eisenhower recruits the U.S. National Guard to escort the Little Rock Nine 1958 – National...
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    (1954), some students worked to integrate schools in the state. The Little Rock Nine brought Arkansas to national attention in 1957 when the federal government...
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  • Guard to block the entry of nine black students, later known as the "Little Rock Nine" after the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School. President...
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    landmark unanimous decision. The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their...
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    North Little Rock (often abbreviated "NLR") is a city in Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States. It is the twin city of Little Rock. The population was...
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  • The Ernest Green Story (category Little Rock Nine)
    students (dubbed the "Little Rock Nine") as they embark on their historic journey to integrate Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957...
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    a small black college in Little Rock, Arkansas. That year, he and his wife, Grace, helped escort the Little Rock Nine, nine high school students attempting...
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    Gloria Ray Karlmark (category Little Rock Nine)
    1942, Little Rock) is a member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African-American students who desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas...
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  • Elizabeth Huckaby (category Little Rock Nine)
    members of the first nine black students admitted to the school after desegregation. Her book Crisis at Central High: Little Rock 1957–58, published in...
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    new laws. In 1957, federal troops were ordered to Little Rock, Arkansas, to escort the Little Rock Nine students in combating violence that occurred as...
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  • Grace Lorch (category Little Rock Nine)
    rights activist best known for her work as a white escort for the Little Rock Nine. Lorch was a teacher in Boston and served as President of the Boston...
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  • L. Alex Wilson (category Little Rock Nine)
    covering the federally enforced integration of Central High School by the Little Rock Nine when a white mob assaulted him and two other Black journalists. He...
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    segregation in the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas. Levitt said she "couldn’t believe the images of the Little Rock Nine she saw on the Public Broadcasting...
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  • Newson, and L. Alex Wilson, attended the integration of nine black students into Little Rock Central High School. When the black reporters arrived on...
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    Little Rock, a historical drama about the Little Rock Nine. Maharaj spent thirteen years interviewing members of The Little Rock Nine, the first nine...
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