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In Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court calls for the desegregation of public schools. -
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The Little Rock school board consents to follow the decision. -
In order to integrate schools, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Arkansas sought for young girls and boys. The NAACP chapter in Arkansas was presided over by Daisy Bates. She was a master at planning. The Little Rock school board was sued by the NAACP under Bates. She then enlisted the help of her husband to enroll nine pupils at the predominantly white Central High School. -
Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo are among the nine black pupils the NAACP registers to attend Little Rock Central High School. -
Little Rock Nine attempt to enter the school building but are refused entry by the National Guard, which Governor Orval Faubus summoned. -
The governor and two members of the National Guard are the targets of an appeal filed by Judge Ronald Davies of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas for impeding on integration. -
In Newport, Rhode Island, Faubus meets with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. -
Judge Davies orders Faubus to remove the National Guard and granted an injunction to NAACP attorneys Thurgood Marshall and Wiley Branton. -
To avoid protests, Little Rock police let students into the building sooner than expected. A throng of more than 1,000 white demonstrators starts rioting as they discover what has transpired. The Little Rock Nine are led from the school by the outnumbered police officers. -
The U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division is dispatched by Eisenhower to Little Rock. -
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A freshly approved bill that Faubus signs enables him to close Little Rock senior high schools, requiring all students to attend classes somewhere else. -
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Ernest Green, the eldest member of the Little Rock Nine, is the first black Central High graduate. -
Faubus is required to reopen the schools when a federal judge finds that his actions violate the Constitution. -
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