Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort a group of black students to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, shortly after the Supreme Court had outlawed segregation in public schools with the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus had vowed to enforce segregation, which prompted President Dwight Eisenhower to send federal troops to protect the nine black students, who became known as the Little Rock Nine.
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