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Escorted
Nine students were escorted by the military into a white school they were escorted so that they woudent get beat up or hurt in anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:101st_Airborne_at_Little_Rock_Central_High.jpg -
A tense year
By the end of September 1957, the nine were admitted to Little Rock Central High under the protection of the U.S. Army (and later the Arkansas National Guard), but they were still subjected to a year of physical and verbal abuse (being spat on and called names) by many of the white students but they were told not to fight back no matter what they do. -
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Ernest Green In 1958, he became the first black student to graduate from Central High School. He graduated from Michigan State University and served as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs under President Jimmy Carter -
Jefferson Thomas
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Minnijean Brown Trickey
She was expelled from Central High in February, 1958, after several incidents, including her dumping a bowl of chili on one of her antagonists in the school cafeteria http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://unit8siarad15usm11.wikispaces.com/file/view/8442830.jpg/229438082/8442830.jpg&imgrefurl=http://unit8siarad15usm11.wikispaces.com/Little%2BRock%2BNine&usg=__meCg3V9nENhHI6A9CgG1cauZBQw=&h=200&w=175&sz=9&hl=en&start=3&sig2=IcwYm0xcg2-VewBIENu7ZA&zoom=1&tbnid=so_5OO49Z13D1M:&tbnh=104&tbnw=91 -
Dr. Terrence Roberts
Following the historic year at Central, his family moved to Los Angeles where he completed high school -
Elizabeth Eckford
Elizabeth Eckford The only one of the nine still living in Little Rock, Elizabeth made a career of the U.S. Army that included work as a journalist. In 1974, she returned to the home in which she grew up and is now a part-time social worker and mother of two sons. -
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