Elizabeth Eckford ignores the hostile screams and stares of fellow students on her first day of school, 6th September 1957. She was one of the nine...
Year-old Elizabeth Eckford is followed by a sullen mob as she attends her first day at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, 4th...
Race Relations, Education, USA, pic: 1950's, Little Rock, Arkansas, White students about to enter Central High School as National Guardsmen prepare...
Federal troops stand guard as African American students join White students in front of Central High School after Federal courts ordered the...
Black students are provided with a military escort when entering and leaving Little Rock Central High School, Arkansas, following the school's...
Members of the 101st Airborne escort black students away from a quiet Central High School at the end of the day.
African American students who had previously been banned from Little Rock Central High School were provided with portal-to-portal protection to enter...
Federal troops stand guard in front of Central High School, in Little Rock, Arkansas, after Federal courts ordered the enforcement of desegregation...
Nine Negro students entered Little Rock Central High School for the fifth straight day as federalized National Guard troops took over patrolling...
Lt. Col. Marion Johnson of the National Guard escorts Johnny Richmond, student from Arkansas Baptist College for Negroes, away from a hostile crowd...
Little Rock, AR: Nine Negro students attending central High School are shown leaving the school under protection of Federalized Arkansas National...
National Guard troops form a line in a street to enforce the nation's first desegregation at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Caucasian National Guardsmen give an African-American student and his bicycle a lift to school while enforcing desegregation at Central High School...
Federal troops confront a racist student from Little Rock Central High School, Arkansas. It took 10,000 of the National Guard to convince white...
Protestors, soldiers and journalists gathered in the street in Little Rock, Arkansas, where the first school desegregation in the U.S., at Central...
Federal troops in military jeeps stand guard while African American students join White students in front of Central High School, in Little Rock,...
Caucasian National Guardsmen help an African-American student with his bicycle while enforcing desegregation at Central High School in Little Rock,...
Troops in a street in Little Rock, Arkansas, where they are helping to enforce the nation's first school desegregation at Central High School,...
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division stationed at Little Rock Central High School take time out to relax in the sun beside their piled rifles....
Negro students who had previously been barred from Little Rock Central High School, were provided with portal-to-portal protection in entering the...
Little Rock, AR- Central High School here September 10th still looks like an armed camp as National Guardsmen stand watch to keep out Negro students....
Confederate flag is flown by students in an automobile as they ride past a jeep-full of federalized Arkansas National Guard troops patrolling in...
African-American students attending Little Rock Central High School are escorted to a waiting Army station wagon for their return home after classes,...
Major General Edwin Walker and Col. William Kuhn, in charge of the 101st Airborne Division, talk into microphones at Little Rock's Central High...
Little Rock, AR: Federalized Arkansas National Guardsmen stand guard at one of the entrances to Quigley Field on the campus of Central High School,...
African American students Jefferson Thomas and Elizabeth Eckford during lunch period at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Crowd of onlookers gathers to watch as Federal troops stand guard while African American students join White students in front of Central High...
Passing the Central High School here, September 21st, a black teenage girl stops to look following the removal of National Guard troops. The troops...
Members of 101st Airborne Division guarding entrance to Central High School enforcing integration while white students mill outside.
The Arkansas National Guard prepare to prevent African American students from entering Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas,...
Young women students walk past a member of the Arkansas National Guard, stationed there by Governor Orval Faubus to prevent nine African American...
People, Education, Race, USA, Little Rock, Arkansas, pic: October 1957, Under the watchful eye of paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division black...
Gathering on a suburban street in Little Rock, Arkansas, where the the first school desegregation in the U.S., at Central High School, is being...
Little Rock, AR- Two students talk peacefully on the steps of Central High School at the noon hour of September 5. This scene is in sharp contrast to...
Little Rock, AK- Elated after spending their first full day at Little Rock Central High, three of the nine Negro students escorted to classes by...
Negro students who had previously been barred from Little Rock Central High School, were provided with portal-to-portal protection in entering the...
Troops of the 101 Airborne escort teenage white student away from Little Rock Central High School, who part of a group which tried to stage a walkout...
Paratrooper from the 101st Airborne division stands guard outside Little Rock's Central High school here on September 25th, as students chat during a...
Little Rock, AR- Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas waves to photographers as he poses with a group of members of the "Mothers' League of Little Rock...
Young women students walk past members of the Arkansas National Guard, stationed there by Governor Orval Faubus to prevent nine African American high...
Eighteen-year-old Ernest Green , one of the nine African American students to integrated Central High School, attends Baccalaureate Services.
Little Rock, AR: Little Rock Superintendent of Schools Virgil T. Blossom gestures as he makes a point during press conference here Jan 20, at which...
The "Little Rock Nine" form a study group after being prevented from entering Little Rock's racially segregated Central High School, 13th September...
Little Rock, AR: White students at the Little Rock Central High School cluster about the group of nine Negro students arriving at the school under an...
Elizabeth Eckford is turned away from Central High School by members of the Arkansas National Guard, called out by Governor Orval Faubus supposedly...
101st Airborne Division enforcing integration at Central High School while white students watch fr. Stairs above.
Two National Guardsmen proceed down a street with their guns drawn in order to enforce the nation's first desegregation at Central High School in...
View of National Guardsmen standing outside Little Rock Central High School and a large group of white students standing with them to prevent any...
Little Rock Historic Central High School front entrance site of 1950's Civil Rights protests in Little Rock Arkansas
Historical Mobil Oil Gas Station at Little Rock Arkansas Central High School, scene of Civil Rights protests in 1950's
Paratroopers are called in to the Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, after Governor Orval Faubus defied a decree by the US...
Anti-desegregations stand by as one of number kicks Alex Wilson in the chest outside Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas,...
Police and anti-desegregation opponents scuffle outside Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, September 23, 1957. A group of...
African American students are escorted by soldiers into Little Rock's Central High School on the first full day of integration.
People, Education, Race, USA, Little Rock, Arkansas, pic: September 1957, The entrance to Central High School, Little Rock, shows black students...
Two Negro soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division now guarding strife-torn Little Rock Central High School drive their jeep in the direction of the...
