Central High School Walked Out In The Footsteps Of The Little Rock 9
Best known for its role in the 1957 school desegregation crisis, Little Rock Central High School saw hundreds of students walk out of class on Wednesday to protest gun violence.
Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas is no stranger to protest. Sixty years ago, following the Supreme Court's historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling, Central drew national attention as nine black students attempted to integrate the previously all-white school.
The Little Rock Nine, as they came to be known, of the Arkansas National Guard, and deployed federal troops to ensure the students could enter the school.
