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== **//1. //** The **Little Rock Nine **  were a group of students who were enrolled in [|Little Rock Central High School]  in 1957. The students were not allowed to enter the [|racially segregated]  school by [|Arkansas] [|Governor] [|Orval Faubus] , and then they could go after the intervention of [|President] [|Eisenhower]  , is considered to be one of the most important events in the [|African-American Civil Rights Movement] .

**//2. //** The little rock nine were made up of <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Ernest Green] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt;">, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Elizabeth Eckford] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt;">, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Jefferson Thomas] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt;">, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Terrence Roberts] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt;">, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Carlotta Walls LaNier] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt;">, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Minnijean Brown] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt;">, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Gloria Ray Karlmark] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt;">, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Thelma Mothershed] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt;">, and <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Melba Beals] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt;">. Ernest Green was the first African American to graduate from Central High School.

**//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. //** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13pt;">The United States government had made this rule called Brown vs. The Board of Education. This was made basically for the Little Rock Nine. This was the law to let them go to school there. Then that is when they got the name of Little Rock Nine.