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Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site Little Rock Central High School under construction in 1927.
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Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site
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Several of the Little Rock Nine leave Central High under federal troop escort.

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Several of the Little Rock Nine leave Central High under federal troop escort.

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Elizabeth Eckford waits on a bus bench as segregationist protestors surround her, September 4, 1957.

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Elizabeth Eckford waits on a bus bench as segregationist protestors surround her, September 4, 1957.

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Telegram sent by Eisenhower to Governor Orval Faubus in 1957

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In 1957 President Eisenhower sent soldiers into Arkansas to enforce the federal court's order to desegregate Central High - becoming the first president since Reconstruction to use federal troops to support African American civil rights. Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site
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