Under escort from the U.S. Armys 101st Airborne Division, nine black students enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Three weeks earlier, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had surrounded the school with National Guard troops to prevent its federal court-ordered racial integration.

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Until 1956, Louisville Central High School was the only public high school in the city for African Americans. Central High History. Harwood Career Preparatory High School; New Tech Institute; North High School; District Wide; Early College High School; Early Learning Center; EVSC Athletics; International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme; JROTC - Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps; Medical Professions Academy

Central, however, has a long and distinguished history.

In 1952 Central merged with EAST TECHNICAL HIGH, while its old site on E. 40th became Central Jr. High. In 1956, Louisville public schools desegregated. According to encyclopedists Aubespin, Clay, and Hudson: "Central High School opened in October, 1873 at Sixth and Kentucky". In 1940 the school moved to E. 40th St. By the time Central had its centennial celebration in 1946, it had graduated 10,000 pupils. Built in 1927 as Little Rock Senior High School, Central was named "America’s Most Beautiful High School" by the American Institute of Architects. Pages 40, 41, 68, 69, 204, and 205 to be added. History & Culture In the fall of 1957 Little Rock became the symbol of state resistance to school desegregation. The History of Central High School Chartered in 1836 and organized in 1838, the Central High School of Philadelphia is the second-oldest public high school in the United States. Central High School has been situated in four locations, beginning with the first building in 1866. The United States Supreme Court struck down racial segregation in public schools in 1954 in the famous Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansascase. The …

From its inception, Central has been an institution of great influence and importance in the annals of American education. After a tense standoff, President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent 1,000 army paratroopers …