Title Work

Title No: 5133

Title: Little Rock Nine enter Central High School escorted by troops from the 101st Airborne Division, September 1957.

Medium: Documentation

Original Medium: Photograph

Date: Sep  1957 (Created)

Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort nine black students into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the school integration crisis in September, 1957. These black students, the first to attend Central High,  would become known as the "Little Rock Nine."

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Subjects: School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock; Little Rock (Ark.)--Race relations; Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)

Name As Subjects: Beals, Melba; Wair, Thelma Mothershed; Eckford, Elizabeth; Karlmark, Gloria Ray; Lanier, Carlotta; Trickey, Minniejean Brown; Green, Ernest G.; 101st Airborne Division Association; Thomas, Jefferson; Roberts, Terrence J.