5 févr. 1957 - Little Rock Nine

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(1)Students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school

(2)The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas prevented their attendence. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

(3)Little Rock, Arkansas

(4)even though black students lived closer to Central, they would be placed in Horace Mann thus confirming the intention of the school board to limit the impact of desegregation.[5] The altered plan gave white students the choice of not attending Horace Mann, but didn't give black students the option of attending Hall.

(5)Reinforce that all laws establishing segregated schools to be unconstitutional, and it called for the desegregation of all schools throughout the nation.