3-11-18 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

In Setember 1957, at LITTLE ROCK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, 9 black students tried to take their places at the all white high school.

The GOVERNOR of the state used the NATIONAL GUARD (reserve soldiers under the control of the state) to stop them taking their places, even though it was their legal right.

The black community took the Governor to court, so he withdrew the National Guard, but now the black teenagers were left totally unprotected from a violent angry mob of white students and adults, determined not to let them in.

The situation was so dangerous that PRESIDENT EISENHOWER had to send 1000 US PARATROOPERS (Federal troops) to protect them for the next 12 months while they attended Little Rock.

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