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Topeka declared segregation in public schools as unconstitutional.
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"Little Rock Nine" enrolled at Little Rock's previously all-white Central High School
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Within a week Arkansas was 1/2 Southern states to announce it would comply with the new ruling
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Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus ordered The State National Guard to surround Central High School and block any attempts by block students to enter the school.
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Nine black students (Little Rock Nine) attempt to enter Central High but are turned away by the National Guard
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A federal judge grants an injuction to NAACP lawyers Thurgood Marshall and Wiley Branton to impede the governor's use of the National Guard. The troops withdraw.
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City police and over 1,000 integration protestors surround the school anticipated to see black students’ attempt to enter the school. Escorted in by police through side door.
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U.S. Congressman Brooks Hays and Little Rock Mayor Woodrow Mann ask the federal government for help via a telegram to President Dwight Eisenhower.
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President Eisenhower displaces between 1,100 and 1,200 federal troops of the 101st Airborne Division and places 10,000 National Guardsmen on duty.
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The Little Rock Nine, under protection from federal troops, enter Central High School through the front entrance. Aggressive white mobs verbally rebuke students and physically harm black reporters.
