African American Students Enter High School with Military Escort

African American students who had previously been banned from Little Rock Central High School were provided with portal-to-portal protection to enter the school in September of 1957 during the desegregation of Arkansas public schools. 26th September 1959: The African American students walk up the steps of the school entrance, flanked by soldiers carrying out President Eisenhower's orders to enforce a Federal Court ruling to integrate Little Rock Central High School.