U.S. 101st Airborne Division guards in Little Rock, Arkansas during Operation Arkansas. Reflection of Little Rock Central High School building in water. Front facade of building. Guards march in front of building.
Crowd in front of Little Rock Central High School (2120 W Daisy L Gatson Bates Dr, Little Rock, AR 72202), protesting against desegregation called by a United States Court Order in 1957, during Civil Rights movement. 36th Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus at a press conference. National Guard in front of Little Rock Central High School. 101st Airborne Division Federal troops running. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks on enforcing Arkansas to respect court order and constitution. A U.S. Army Airborne Federal troop service man assists two African American students into a car. Airborne Federal troops assisting and guarding African-American students to get inside their car. Airborne Federal troops escort the car with African-American students on their way to school. 101st Airborne Division troops apprehend white teenagers and force others away at bayonet point. Airborne Federal troops escort an apprehended teenager. Students walk toward the school. An army truck passes by. Airborne Federal troops and federalized National Guard troops surrounding the Little Rock Central High School. Little Rock Central High School students crowd in front of the school as the troops apprehend them. President Dwight D. Eisenhower ends his speech with the words, “thus will be restored the image of America and all its parts as one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”.
Major General Edwin Walker; Major General Sherman I Clinger, State Adjutant General for State of Arkansas and Lieutenant Colonel Ernest B Bowden, Commander of the 1st Battalion 153rd Infantry Regiment, Arkansas National Guard, stand and chat in front of the Central High School. United States Army Soldiers escort African American students up to the steps of Central High School. Other students line up along the stairs and watch.
Operation Arkansas by U.S. army in Little Rock, Arkansas. Grounds of National Guard Armory in Little Rock where some soldiers of U.S. 101st Airborne Division are billeted. A few soldiers stand near tents. Cloth line near tents. Soldiers standing in chow line. Soldiers eating. Photographers take pictures of two soldiers as they walk along street. Two soldiers escort African American students to station wagon on leaving the Central High School.
Operation Arkansas by U.S. army in Little Rock, Arkansas. Chief of U.S. Military District Major General Edwin G. Walker talks to 101st Airborne Division, 1st Airborne Battle Group Commanding-Officer Colonel William A Kuhn. Sign on jeep reads 'Above the rest 1st ABN BAT GP CO 327th Infantry'. General Walker leaves in jeep. Colonel Kuhn gets into another vehicle, talks to an officer at the curb. His vehicle leaves followed by several others.
Operation Arkansas by U.S. Army in Little Rock, Arkansas, during time of forced school desegregation in the American Civil Rights Movement. U.S. Army station wagon with African American students accompanied by U.S. 101st Airborne Division guards in jeeps leaves Central High School.
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