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School superintendent Virgil Blossom planned the Little Rock Nine. The plan was initially to integrate one of Little Rock's high schools.
The Little Rock Nine were the first nine black students to attend Little Rock Central High School (Arkansas), formerly an all-white school. The Little Rock Nine is the result of the case "Brown v. Board of Education, which integrated Southern schools in the South.
They were called the Little Rock Nine because there were nine young black students, led by Elizabeth Eckford and Ernest Green, who were the first to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. They endured racist taunts, death threats, insults, and anger just for the right to attend their local high school.
For their academic achievements
Elizabeth Eckford is one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.