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LITTLE ROCK, AR - 1 August 2010 - Litte Rock Central High School, built in 1927, is famous for being the school where nine African-American students, known as the Little Rock Nine, were denied entrance to the school in defiance of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling ordering integration of public schools. This provoked a showdown between the Arkansas State Governor Orval Faubus and US President Dwight D. Eisenhower that gained international attention when Eisenhower ordered the 1,200-man 101st Airborne Battle Group of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division to escort the nine students into the school. The school also made history when one of it's teachers became the plaintiff in a case that challenged an Arkansas law forbidding the teaching of the theory of evolution by natural selection in the public schools..Picture: Ryan Eyer/Allied Picture Press

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LITTLE ROCK, AR - 1 August 2010 - Litte Rock Central High School, built in 1927, is famous for being the school where nine African-American students, known as the Little Rock Nine, were denied entrance to the school in defiance of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling ordering integration of public schools. This provoked a showdown between the Arkansas State Governor Orval Faubus and US President Dwight D. Eisenhower that gained international attention when Eisenhower ordered the 1,200-man 101st Airborne Battle Group of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division to escort the nine students into the school. The school also made history when one of it's teachers became the plaintiff in a case that challenged an Arkansas law forbidding the teaching of the theory of evolution by natural selection in the public schools..Picture: Ryan Eyer/Allied Picture Press