Little Rock's Central High

25 September 1957 

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On this date in 1957 - With 300 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne standing guard, U.S. Marshalls escorted nine black children into class in the manufactured crisis at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Other Years:

1789 - The first U.S. Congress adopted the first 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. The first ten were ratified and became known as the Bill of Rights.

1845 – Future Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest married Presbyterian minister's daughter, Mary Ann Montgomery in Hernando, Mississippi.

1897 - Southern literary genius and Nobel Prize winner, William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi.

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