@splcenter : #OTD in 1957, the Little Rock Nine were barred from their first day of classes at the all-white Central H.S. in Little Rock, #Arkansas. A white mob greeted them, as did the state National Guard, which Gov. Orval Faubus had called in to block them from school. #TheMarchContinues • TwiCopy

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#OTD in 1957, the Little Rock Nine were barred from their first day of classes at the all-white Central H.S. in Little Rock, #Arkansas. A white mob greeted them, as did the state National Guard, which Gov. Orval Faubus had called in to block them from school. #TheMarchContinues