They were called the Little Rock Nine because there were nine African American teenagers who went to a previously all white school in Little Rock Arkansas.
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They were the first black students to integrate the high school at Little Rock, Arkansas. Eisenhower had to call out the army to protect them because the Governor of Arkansas tried to block them from...