There've been books written and documentaries filmed about segregation and the chaos at Little Rock Central High School in 1957, when nine black students attempted to enroll at the all-white school.

The nation's leading newspapers produced banner headlines for days after Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus sent in the Arkansas national guard to block the students' entrance, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower countered by sending in federal troops to escort the nine students into the school.