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On this day, September 25, 1957, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was integrated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_25
• 1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
• 1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
Leading troops to protect Black students at Little Rock this week 1957 was General Edwin Walker, who later renounced what he had done, resigned his commission and ran for Governor of Texas as hateful Radical Right white supremacist:
Link to tweet