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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that racial segregation in the public school system is unconstitutional
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The Little Rock School Board agrees to comply with the decision to integrate, but only after the Court outlines the method and time it should take to desegregate
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The NAACP registers nine black students to integrate Little Rock Central High School: Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray, Thelma Mothershed and Melba Pattillo
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Governor Orval Faubus calls out the Arkansas National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School
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The Little Rock Nine try to enter Central High School but are turned away by the National Guard under the Governors orders
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Judge Ronald Davies of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas begins injunction proceedings against the governor and two National Guardsmen for interfering with integration
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Judge Davies grants NAACP lawyers Thurgood Marshall and Wiley Branton an injunction telling Faubus to withdraw the National Guard
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Little Rock police slip students into the school earlier than scheduled to bypass protesters. When crowd of more than 1,000 white protesters realizes what happened, it begins rioting. The outnumbered police officers escort the Little Rock Nine out of the school
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Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army to Little Rock
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Faubus signs a recently passed law allowing him to close Little Rock public senior high schools, forcing all students to study elsewhere
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The oldest Little Rock Nine student, Ernest Green, is the first black student to graduate from Central High
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A federal court rules Faubus' actions unconstitutional, forcing him to reopen the schools
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Little Rock Central High School named to the National Register of Historic Places
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Sculptures in their likenesses are dedicated on the grounds of the Arkansas state Capitol. I was at the ceremony for the unveiling of the statues and I was 8 years old
