CENTRAL HIGH (1957)

Terrence Roberts in 1957, one of the nine African American Students who integrated Little Rock Central High School while federal troops patrolled the campus. (AP Photo)

FILE - Jefferson Thomas in 1957, one of nine African American who integrated Little Rock Central High School while federal troops patrolled the campus, is seen in an 1957 file photo. Jefferson Thomas died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio, said fellow Little Rock Nine member Minnijean Trickey Brown. He was 68. (AP Photo, File)

Carlotta Walls LaNier in 1957, one of the nine African American Students who integrated Little Rock Central High School while federal troops patrolled the campus. (AP Photo)

FILE--Pictured left to right are: Gloria Ray, Terrance Roberts, Melba Pattillo, Jefferson Thomas, Carlotta Walls, Thelma Mothershed, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, and Ernest Green. These are the nine students who entered Little Rock Central High under the protection of federal troops with bayonets in 1957 when Gov. Orval E. Faubus tried to block enforcement of the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision outlawing school segregation and directed the Arkansas National Guard to keep the students from enrolling at the all-white Central High. President Eisenhower responded by sending in members of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division to escort the students into the school on Sept. 25, 1957. (AP Photo/File)

Nine African American Students integrated Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957, while federal troops patrolled the campus. This 25-year-old photo shows the school. (AP Photo)

Ernest Green, one of the original kids involved in the Central H.S. desegregation at Little Rock, Arkansas is shown in Brooklyn, New York Aug. 3, 1965 in 1957. (AP Photo/Jack Murray)

Acting on the orders of Gov. Orval Faubus, National Guard troops turn back four of the nine black students who tried to enter the all white Central High School, Little Rock, Ark., September 4, 1957. (AP Photo/Arkansas Democrat)

Students of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., including Hazel Bryan, shout insults at Elizabeth Eckford as she calmly marches down to a line of National Guardsmen, who blocked the main entrance and would not let her enter, Sept. 4, 1957. (AP PHOTO/Arkansas Democrat Gazette/Will Counts)

Elizabeth Eckford, right, is turned away by Arkansas National Guardsmen as she approaches Little Rock Central High September 4, 1957. The guardsmen were instructed by Gov. Orval Faubus not to allow nine black students to enter the school, despite federal court orders. (AP Photo/Arkansas Democrat, Will Counts)

Only White students entered Central High School at Little Rock, Ark., on Sept. 5, 1957. The school is under integration orders from U.S. District Judge Ronald N. Davies. The day before nine Black students were refused admittance to the school by Arkansas National Guardsmen. The military men were ordered by Governor Orval Faubus to surround the school and prevent Black students from entering the grounds. (AP Photo/William P Straeter)

Two-year-old Linda Lou Pritchard finds a good safe place to sit among three unidentified Arkansas National Guardsmen in front of the Little Rock Central High School, Sept. 6, 1957 where integration problems have drawn much national interest. On the second day of school, National Guardsmen turned away nine black students who attempted to enter the school. The military men were at the school on orders from Gov. Orval Faubus despite the decision by U.S. District Judge Ronald N. Davies that the school allow integration. (AP Photo/William P. Straeter)

Journalist Alex Wilson, a reporter from the Tri-State Defender, weekly black publication of Memphis, is kicked by an unidentified white member of a mob, with half a brick in his hand, on a street outside Little Rock Central High School September 23, 1957. The mob was protesting the integration attempts by nine black students, who entered the school while Wilson was being assaulted. Wilson had been escorting the students, and a fight broke out almost immediately. The students were removed from the school a few hours later for their own safety as the white mob continued to riot. (AP Photo/ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT/ Will Counts)

A U.S. Army paratrooper uses the butt of his rifle to nudge along a man identified as C.E. Blake, who was hit in the head when he tried to take a weapon from a trooper near Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 25, 1957, where integration is being enforced by the Army. (AP Photo)

A group of white students who played hooky from Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., gather outside the governor’s mansion carrying placards indicating they are on his side in the integration dispute, Sept. 26, 1957. They demanded an audience with Gov. Orval Faubus but were politely turned down. (AP Photo)

Eight of the nine black students who have been attending Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., are shown as they walked from school to their waiting Army station wagon, Oct. 2, 1957. (AP Photo/Ferd Kaufman)

Nine black students gather in front of Central High School, Sept. 25, 1957 in Little Rock, Ark., surrounded by troops who escorted them into the school. (AP Photo)

Left to right: Dorothy Frazier, 13, Minnie Brown, 15, and Thelma Mothershed, 16, wait in a corridor of the U.S. Courthouse at Little Rock, Ark., where they were called to testifiy at a hearing on the integration problems at Central High School, Sept. 7, 1957. Thelma and Minnie were two of the students who were turned away by the National Guard as they attempted to enter the building on the first day of school. (AP Photo/William P. Straeter)

Terrence Roberts, 15, one of the nine black students who tried to enter Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., is seen reading a story in the Arkansas Democrat, Sept. 22, 1957. He will try to enter the school again tomorrow. (AP Photo)

Thirty troops form a ring around the nine black students as they walk into Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 3, 1957, after yesterday’s incidents inside the school. White students stood outside and jeered at the maneuver. (AP Photo)

Central High School students give thanks at a pre-Thanksgiving dinner at the home of NAACP state president Daisy and L.C. Bates in Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 25, 1957. The nine black students recited reasons for being thankful despite their ordeal during integration here this fall. From left to right: Thelma Mothershed, Mr. and Mrs. Bates, Jefferson Thomas and Elizabeth Eckford. (AP Photo)

Minnijean Brown, 16, smiles as she arrives at La Guardia Airport, New York City, Feb.22, 1958 from Little Rock, Ark, where she was expelled from the city’s Central High School. The Arkansas girl will live with a family in Hastings-On-Hudson, N.Y, while attending a private, racially integrated school in New York City. (AP Photo)

From left to right: Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, and Minnie Jean Brown are seen at a dinner party in their honor at the home of a friend, Dec. 6, 1957, in Arkansas. (AP Photo)

Seventeen year old Ernest Green poses in the cap and gown he will wear Tuesday, May 27, 1958 when he joins in graduation ceremonies with 649 other Little Rock Central High School seniors. He will be the first African American in history to be graduated by the school and his presence will climax the first year of intergration in the Arkansas capital. The commencement exercise will take place in the football stadium where federal troops established field headquarters during 1957 fall’s anti-integration violence. (AP Photo)

Thelma Jean Mothershed Wair in 1957, one of the nine African American Students who integrated Little Rock Central High School while federal troops patrolled the campus. (AP Photo)

Melba Pattillo Beals in 1957, one of the nine African American Students who integrated Little Rock Central High School while federal troops patrolled the campus. (AP Photo)

Gloria Ray Karlmark in 1957, one of the nine African American Students who integrated Little Rock Central High School while federal troops patrolled the campus. (AP Photo)