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Life magazine
September 1957
In September 1957 a group of African American students became part of a movement to desegregate Arkansas's Little Rock Central High School. The young students were prevented from entering the school by members of the Arkansas National Guard, on orders from the state's governor. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent US troops to enforce integration. On February 6, 1958, Minnijean Brown received this suspension notice from Central High for a verbal altercation with a white student. Brown's parents appealed the suspension, stating that verbal and physical attacks against their daughter were a concentrated effort to have her expelled from the school. The appeal was denied. |