President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.

Little Rock Nine

African-American students enrolled at a desegregated high school in Arkansas in 1957

The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval…