There was a huge crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas, and according to Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. The huge crisis was that nine African Americans tried to attend a previously all-white school. These nine African American students were now and forever known as The Little Rock Nine. The names of the nine students were Minniejean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Earnest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo, Gloria Ray, Terrance Roberts, Jefferson Thomas and Carlotta Walls. When the African American students attempted to enter the school they were stopped by the Arkansas National Guard. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower learned of what was happening to the new students at African American Central High, he called in the Arkansas National Guard and told them to stand down. from the Central High campus. He also felt that the white students would not let them in and represented the whites in the angry mobs. He called the U.S. Army parachute unit. September 25, 1957, the Little Rock Nine's first day of school at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The patrol jeeps were covering the entire area of ​​Central High School and a few blocks away the paratroopers were escorting the nine African-American students to first period. Just as President Dwight D. Eisenhower expected, there were many very unhappy white people yelling and chanting racial slurs against African American students. The majority of Arkansas's white population and the students' parents were very upset that African American teenagers were treated just like whites. teenagers thought whites should have their own schools and African Americans should have their own schools. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus was receiving all sorts of complaints. Because President Dwight E. Eisenhower wanted...... half of the newspaper...... June 10, 1977. James Earl Ray died in prison of hepatitis C. April 23, 1998 James Earl Ray died at age 70 in Nashville, Tennessee. In the 1950s African Americans were allowed to play sports with white players largely thanks to Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson, the first African American in Major League Baseball to play second base for the Brooklyn Dodgers, signed with the Dodgers in 1946. Larry Doby was the first African American in the American League to play at Center Field for the Cleveland Indians signed in 1947. In the 1960s African Americans gained the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Martin Luther King Jr. also gave his famous "I have to Dream". African Americans pushed for further changes in the 1970s. In the 1980s, African Americans significantly improved their social and economic position. In the 1990s, African Americans were finally accepted as equals.