Video: 'Eyes On The Prize - (Part 2) Fighting Back 1957–1962' (Sept. 25, 1957, at 18:36)

(Wednesday, September 25, 1957, 9:25 a.m. CDT; during the Little Rock Crisis, part of the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968)) — Nine black students who’d been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, because of unruly white crowds were escorted to class this morning by members of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division without serious disorder.

President Dwight Eisenhower had ordered the 101st Airborne Division (without its black soldiers, who rejoined the division a month later) to Little Rock and federalized the entire 10,000-member Arkansas National Guard, taking it out of the hands of Governor Orval Faubus.

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