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.