In the United States, school integration is the process of ending race-based segregation within American public, and private schools. Racial segregation in schools existed throughout most of American
An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C., in 1957
Protest of the integration of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1959
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The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students
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…had worse facilities than white schools and that black teachers were paid less than white teachers, contributed to the landmark unanimous decision. The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock…
Elizabeth Eckford attempts to enter Little Rock Central High on September 4, 1957; Hazel Bryan shouts behind her; photograph by Will Counts
The nine students greeting New York mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. in 1958
101st Airborne escorting the Little Rock Nine to school
Young U.S. Army paratrooper in battle gear outside Central High School, on the cover of Time magazine (October 7, 1957)