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Events on Wednesday 25 September 1957 1
1957Little Rock CrisisFederal troops enforce school desegregation in ArkansasNine Black students attempting to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas were blocked by the state National Guard on Governor Orval Faubus's orders. President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division to escort the students into the school, a major confrontation over Brown v. Board of Education.