The BIG NEWS from Little Rock this month is the 50th Anniversary of The Little Rock Nine, a cluster of gangly youths who shook the country to its roots by trying to go to school.
On September 25, 1957 nine black students were escorted into Little Rock’s Central High School by paratroopers from the “Screaming Eagles” 101st Airborne Division under orders from President Eisenhower. It was a historic day igniting a fundamental change in American society
--- the end of racial segregation in education.
On September 25, 1957 nine black students were escorted into Little Rock’s Central High School by paratroopers from the “Screaming Eagles” 101st Airborne Division under orders from President Eisenhower. It was a historic day igniting a fundamental change in American society
--- the end of racial segregation in education.
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