Little Rock Nine Integrate Central High School

Nine Black students — Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo Beals — integrated Little Rock Central High School under federal military escort, facing a violent white mob and the defiance of Governor Orval Faubus.