Negro students are barred from entering school by Arkansas National Guard [graphic] / Will Counts [photographer]. 1957.

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Negro students are barred from entering school by Arkansas National Guard [graphic] / Will Counts [photographer]. 1957.

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Photograph of a guardsman preventing four black students from entering Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, September 4, 1957. From the left are Carlotta Walls, Gloria Ray, Jane Hill and Ernest Green.

1 photograph : negative : b&w ; 13 x 10 cm. (5 x 4 in.)

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Arkansas History Commission

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Green, Ernest G. (Ernest Gideon), 1941-

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Civil rights worker. From the description of Reminiscences of Ernest Green: oral history, 1989. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122308474 ...

Counts, I. Wilmer (Ira Wilmer), 1931-

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After the United States Supreme Court had ruled in 1954 that racial segregation in public schools must be ended, Little Rock planned to gradually integrate its schools over a period of six years. The first African American students were to be admitted to Central High School in September 1957. The nine students were Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo, Gloria Ray, Terrance Roberts, Jefferson Thomas and Carlotta Walls. When the students attempted to ...

Ray, Gloria.

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Walls, Carlotta.

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Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)

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Hill, Jane, 1964-

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