White segregationist demonstrators protesting at the admission of the Little Rock Nine, to Central High School.

White segregationist demonstrators protesting at the admission of the Little Rock Nine, to Central High School; 1959. The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrolment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the student were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. (Photo by: Photo 12/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images)