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=**__Crisis in Little Rock__**=

In September 1957, the school bored in Little Rock, Arkansas, won a court order requiring that nine African Americans admitted in a High School, with over 2,000 white students. Orval Faubus, the governor or Arkansas, was determined to win the elections. He was known as a defender of white supremacy. He sent National Guard troops to surround the school to prevent the African American students to enter. Eventually President Eisenhower send 1,000 101st airborne soldiers to let the nine students in.