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Escorted by Federal troops, Little Rock nine" enter front door of Central High School" – Historic Reproduction

Escorted by Federal troops, Little Rock nine" enter front door of Central High School", 1958 Jan. — historic print
Escorted by Federal troops, Little Rock nine" enter front door of Central High School", 1958 Jan.. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic print captures Escorted by Federal troops, Little Rock nine" enter front door of Central High School" in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Federal soldiers escort a group of Black students through the front entrance of Little Rock Central High School in this view, a moment that captured the standoff over school integration in Arkansas. The students, later known as the Little Rock Nine, were admitted under a federal court order after Governor Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to block them in September 1957. President Dwight D. Eisenhower responded by sending paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division to enforce the ruling and protect the students. Ebony published the photograph in its January 1958 issue, bringing the confrontation to a national readership.

Created / published1958 Jan.
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
SubjectsIllus. in: Ebony Magazine, 1958 Jan., p. 83. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; School desegreg.; National Guard--Ark.; African American Hist.--1958.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,207 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158025

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