In May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka court case that segregation of America’s public schools was unconstitutional. However, mobs prevented the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. On September 2, 1957, Governor Orval Faubus announced that he would call in the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the African-American students’ entry to Central High. He claimed that violence and rioting will break out if black students were allowed to enter Central High and that it was for the protection of the Little Rock Nine. The Arkansas National Guard, under orders from Faubus, prevented any of the Little Rock Nine from entering Central High.
In the following weeks, President
In the following weeks, President