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In Feburary of 1951, the Brown v. Board of Education Topeka case was filed. This case was the beginning of the end of segregation. It did not get passed until 1954.
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From 1954-1957, Arkansas was progressive in integrating their state. By 1957, 7 out of 8 Universities in Arkansas had been desegregated, as well as some of its public libraries and buses. Many boards were also beginning to come up with plans to integrate their schools. Also, 1954 was when the Brown v. Board of Education decision was made.
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This was the first morning the Little Rock Nine tried to enter the school. They were turned away however, because the Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, had called in the Arkansas Guard to keep integration from happening.
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After calling in the guard to keep integration from happening, President Eisenhower forced Faubus to remove them so the school could become desegregated.
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The students were able to enter the school, but they were only there a little while, for fear that the mobsters outside were going to break in. They were escorted out of the school around noon.
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President Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10730 which deployed troops to Central High School. He did this to help control the mobs of people outside of the school and to protect the African-American students.
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Ernest Green became the first black graduate at Central High School. Martin Luther King Jr. attended his graduation. After this first integrated school year, the Little Rock school system was shut down for one year to try and prevent further desegregation.
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It wasn't until September of 1972 that Central High School was officially and forcefully integrated.
