<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957 . Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas . They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower . </P> <P> The U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 347 U.S. 483, on May 17, 1954 . Tied to the 14th Amendment, the decision declared all laws establishing segregated schools to be unconstitutional, and it called for the desegregation of all schools throughout the nation . After the decision, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) attempted to register black students in previously all - white schools in cities throughout the South . In Little Rock, the capital city of Arkansas, the school board agreed to comply with the high court's ruling . Virgil Blossom, the Superintendent of Schools, submitted a plan of gradual integration to the school board on May 24, 1955, which the board unanimously approved . The plan would be implemented during the fall of the 1957 school year, which would begin in September 1957 . </P>

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