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The University of Arkansas Law School is integrated.
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Little Rock Public Library board approves integrating its facilities.
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The Little Rock School Board says it will comply with the Supreme Court decision in the Brown v.the Board of Education case.
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The Little Rock School Board votes unanimously to adopt Virgil Blossom's plan of gradual integration starting September 1957.
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Twenty-seven black students try to register at all-white schools, and they are turned down.
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The NAACP files suit on behalf of 33 black children denied admittance to four white schools.
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Little Rock's buses are desegregated with no problems.
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Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957
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The "Little Rock Nine" are selected. Including Elizabeth Eckford, Minnie Jean Brown, and Ernest Green.
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With desegregation scheduled for September, opponents organize the Capital Citizens Council and the Mother's League of Central High School.
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Governor Orval Faubus calls out the Arkansas National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School to preserve the peace and avert violence that may be caused by extremists.
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Judge Davies orders desegregation to start the next day.
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The nine black students attempt to enter Central High but are turned away by the National Guard.
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Judge Davies rules that Faubus had used the troops to prevent integration, not to preserve law and order as he claimed. The Governor removes the Guardsmen and the Little Rock Police Department takes over.
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A mob gathers around in front of the school, the nine black students go inside through a side door. A white student takes them to the principal's office where they are to receive their class assignments. When the mob learns the students are inside, it bec
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Little Rock Mayor Woodrow Mann sends President Eisenhower a telegram asking for federal troops to maintain order and complete the integration process. The President announces he is sending 1,000 members of the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock. He fe
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Under escort by the Army troops, the nine black students are escorted back into Central High
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A Mother's League petition to remove the federal troops who are there in violation of state and federal constitutions is dismissed by Judge Davies
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Taunted by white male students, Minnijean Brown, one of the black students, dumps a bowl of chili on her antagonists in the cafeteria. She is suspended for six days.
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Ernest Green becomes the first black student to graduate from Central High as he joins 600 senior classmates in commencement ceremonies at Quigley Stadium.
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Five of the six members of the Little Rock School Board resign in frustration, having been ordered by a federal appeals court to proceed with integration of the high schools, even though it had no high schools to integrate.
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All grades in Little Rock public schools are finally integrated.
