This September 1957 photo shows the nine African-American students being escorted into Little Rock’s Central High School by troops from the Army’s 101st Airborne Division.
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Remembering history
Member of ‘Little Rock Nine’ talks about his experience desegregating Central High School 60 years ago
On Sept. 25, 1957, Ernest Gideon Green and eight other African-American teens were escorted by federal troops past an angry white mob and climbed the front steps to enter Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.
