In 3–5 sentences, summarize the event of the Little Rock Nine and analyze its significance in the history of civil rights in the United States.
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The impact that the little rock nine have on the civil rights is that the little rock nine was nine black students enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957 testing a landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools
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Little Rock nine were the group of nine African American students who were integrated after the segregation laws were being pronounced to be unconstitutional during the landmark decision of the supreme court in Brown Vs. Board of education case.
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- Little Rock nine were a group of nine students who were enrolled in the all white school in central high school in Little Rock , Arkansas. The Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the black students’ entry into the high school.
- In the midst of huge protest from thousand white students who gathered in the school, the nine African American students were integrated inn the school and weer permitted to attend the first day of the school.
- Later that month, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school which drew national attention and instigated the civil rights movement.
- The nine students suffered many embarrassments but continued the classes for the next one year.
- The nine students were remembered even today for their significant role in the civil rights movement and were congressional Gold medal as an honor.
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