Little Rock Nine

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• In 1954, the United states Supreme Court declared public school segregation unconstitutiol in Brown V. Board of Education

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• Students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas.

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• The U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 347 U.S. on May 17, 1954.

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• Tied to the 14th amendment, the decision declared all laws establishing segregated schools to be unconstitutional.

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• By 1954, the NAACP had registered nine black students to attend the previously all-white Little Rock Central High.

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• At the end of the school year, Emest Green became the first African American to graduate from Central High School.

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• Before schools opened in the fall of 1958, Faubus closed all four of Little Rock's public high schools.

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• On September 4, 1957, the Nine attempted to enter Central but were turned away by National Guards.

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• Several of the Little Rock Nine went on distinguished careers.

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