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What was the Little Rock Nine? How did the local government’s reaction differ from the federal government’s reaction?

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the little Rock nine was a group of nine African American students that attended little Rock central highschool in 1957. the local government sent in the national guard to "preserve the peace" while President Eisenhower issued an executive order federalizing the national guard to support the integration

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