In May 1954, the landmark case Brown v. The Supreme Court's Board of Education had declared the racial segregation of American public schools unconstitutional. The Supreme Court had called for the integration of schools, so that students of any race could attend any school without worrying about “whites-only” labels. The Little Rock, Arkansas public school system agreed to comply with this new desegregated system and within a year had a plan to integrate students into all of Little Rock's public schools. By 1957, nine students had been selected by the Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), chosen based on their outstanding grades and excellent attendance, and were enrolled in the now integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas . But the Little Rock Nine, composed of Jefferson Thomas, Thelma Mothershed, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Ernest Green, Melba Pattillo Beals, Gloria Ray Karlmark, and Terrence Roberts, faced the angry white segregationist students and adults on the their enrollment at Central High School. Thus began the real test; that of the courage of the students and that of the ethics of the white community. The nine African American students were not kindly accepted at Central High. White segregationists were angry and despised the idea of ​​integration. Perhaps the angriest segregationist was Orval Faubus. Born in 1910, Orval Faubus became governor of Arkansas in 1955. He fought tooth and nail against the desegregation of Central High School and personally appointed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the Nine from entering the school. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, however, was not satisfied with Faubus. After Faubus refused...half of the paper......he applied, however, and was eventually admitted to Ole' Miss. Despite the horrors the Nine faced in Little Rock, these nine students showed true courage and stood up. to those who tried to prevent them from receiving education. They created an example for others, a beacon of hope for oppressed African Americans, and helped pave the way for a future without racial segregation. Works Cited History of Desegregation of Little Rock Public Schools. Little Rock Central High School's 40th anniversary. Centralhigh57.org.Galiano, Amanda. Little Rock Central: What happened to the Nine. Littlerock.about.com.Little Rock Nine. Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Enciclopediaofarkansas.netHistory. Little Rock Nine Foundation. Littlerock9.comMartin Luther King Jr. Little Rock Nine. mlk kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_little_rock_school_desegregation