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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) LITTLE ROCK NINE—MAGNUM AGENCY. Group of 36 gelatin silver print press photos taken during the Little Rock Crisis in 1957: showing local whites and blacks, and the students who desegregated Little Rock High School. Various sizes, from 8 x 10 to larger and smaller; should be seen.
an excellent representative group of photographs chronicling the events that took place after nine african american students attempted to enter little rock arkansas high school to desegregate it in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially physically blocked from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. When things started to get violent, President Dwight D. Eisenhower stepped in and ordered the school desegregated.
