| In 1957 Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus ignored rulings against racial segregation and refused to desegregate the school districts in Little Rock. He ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent black students from entering the city’s Central High School. United States President Dwight Eisenhower responded by sending federal troops (pictured here) to provide safe passage for the students, but many black students were not admitted to public schools in Arkansas until a year later. In 1958 the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case Cooper v. Aaron, ruled to end segregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. |
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