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Why did Little Rock begin integrating schools in 1957?

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On September 2, 1957, Orval Faubus governor of Arkansas at the time make a call that he would tell the national guard to prevent the African Americans students from going to school, claiming it was the students protection

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The Supreme Court had ruled that segregation was illegal.

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