From segregation to integration
It was September 25, 1957 in Little Rock, Arkansas where the biggest step in Civil Rights was made. Nine students were integrated into Central High School. They were escorted by the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne as they made their way through hostile crowds. It was they who shouldered the burden of being the first Africans in an all White school. Even when the Supreme Court's Landmark 1954 decision on the Brown vs. Board of Education got rid of the segregation in public schools, it was these people that paved the way to an integration of Blacks and Whites, getting the same education.