Question

Nine African-American students volunteered to enroll in Little Rock‘s first integrated schools. What was their first day like

Answer 1

On September 4, 1957, the first day of classes at Central High, Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the black students’ entry into the high school. Later that month, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school.