It was the first day of school in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Elizabeth Eckford, also 15 and the girl Bryan was screaming at, was headed to class at Little Rock Central High School.

The "Little Rock Nine," as the nine teens came to be known, were to be the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School.

U.S. Army troops escort nine black students out of Little Rock’s Central High School in the fall of 1957.

The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

The Little Rock Nine. They made their way through a crowd shouting obscenities and even throwing objects. The 1957 Civil Rights crisis put Little Rock and Little Rock Central High on front pages worldwide and introduced the world to the Little Rock Nine – Melba Pattillo, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls, Jefferson Thomas, Gloria Ray, and Thelma Mothershed.

Their attendance at … The Little Rock Nine, as the teens came to be known, were black students who sought to attend Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957. The Supreme Court had ruled segregated schools unconstitutional in its landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Little Rock Nine, group of African American high-school students who challenged racial segregation in the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas.They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The group—consisting of Melba Pattillo, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls, Jefferson Thomas, Gloria Ray, and Thelma Mothershed—became the centre of the struggle to desegregate public schools in the United States, …

The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. The "Little Rock Nine," as the nine teens came to be known, were to be the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School. The 1957 Civil Rights crisis put Little Rock and Little Rock Central High on front pages worldwide and introduced the world to the Little Rock Nine – Melba Pattillo, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls, Jefferson Thomas, Gloria Ray, and Thelma Mothershed.

And attending class in 1957 wasn’t the end of the fight for the Little Rock Nine, either.

Three years earlier, following the Supreme Court ruling, the Little Rock school board pledged to voluntarily desegregate its schools. Once the students reached the front door the National Guard prevented them from entering the school and were forced to go home. Three years earlier, following the Supreme Court ruling, the Little Rock school board pledged to voluntarily desegregate its schools. On September 4, 1957 nine African American students arrived at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Little Rock Nine, as the teens came to be known, were black students who sought to attend Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957. The “Little Rock Nine,” as they became known, didn’t make it inside that day. They made their way through a crowd shouting obscenities and even throwing objects. Home. The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. The Supreme Court had ruled segregated schools unconstitutional in its landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling.

Once the students reached the front door the National Guard prevented them from entering the school and were forced to go home. It was the first day of school in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Elizabeth Eckford, also 15 and the girl Bryan was screaming at, was headed to class at Little Rock Central High School. On September 4, 1957 nine African American students arrived at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.