15 sept 1957 año - Desegregation at Central High School in Little Rock

Descripción:

The Little Rock School Board votes to integrate schools, but desegregation is met with resistance and violence when nine black students attempt to enter Central High School. Gov. Orval Faubus says "blood will run in the streets" if integration of black and white students is forced, so National Guardsmen are called to keep out the nine students on the first day of classes. Eventually, police are called to protect and escort the students, but the governor responds by closing Little Rock's public high schools for the 1958-59 academic year.