Little Rock, Arkansas High School Integration
Troops patrol Little Rock Central High School during Operation Arkansas re Integration 29Sep & 2Oct 1957
Four Black girls out of US Army station wagon outside school, w/ military jeep & soldiers escorting. Journalists interviewing man, one w/ microphone. Troops standing behind w/ bayonets on rifles. MCU Major General Edwin G. Walker talking w/ Col. Wiliam A. Kuhn, CO, 1st Airborne Battle Grp, 101st Airborne. Walker into jeep w/ driver & drive off.
10:14:34 Airborne troops march down street, fix bayonets & march up. Pennant on pole w/ troops running past at double time. Troops w/ field kitchen behind High School; white girls playing softball (?) behind.
Troops served in chow line, eating. Two GIs patrol along street - escort black girl students to station wagon.
10:17:01 Troops stand guard, white students walking into school behind barrier. US Army station wagon pulls up w/ black students, escorted into school as whites watch from entrance steps. Exterior school - sign Little Rock Central High School, soldiers on guard at doors, tilt up to waving students at window. Troops march up steps towards camera; down steps away from camera.
10:19:13 Walker & Kuhn talk in front of High School. Sign on jeep: Above the Rest. 1st ABN Bat. 327th Inf. Gen. Walker gets into jeep, leaves. Soldiers in two jeeps leaving.
10:20:10 Soldiers march along street, rear view as soldiers jog in double time along sidewalk on residential street. Troops running up street away from camera. CU (head chopped off) as soldier fixes bayonet - standing guard. Various shots National Guard marching around campus. GI reading newspaper while sitting on grandstand, others playing cards. Pan across field kitchen w/ soldiers sitting under trees outside National Guard Armory Building.
10:22:52 Two jeeps escorting station wagon & girls getting in, High School behind. Drive past.
Civil Rights; Integration; Eisenhower Era; 1950s; Segregation;
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Little Rock, Arkansas High School Integration Troops patrol Little Rock Central High School during Operation Arkansas re Integration 29Sep & 2Oct 1957 Four Black girls out of US Army station wagon outside school, w/ military jeep & soldiers escorting. Journalists interviewing man, one w/ microphone. Troops standing behind w/ bayonets on rifles. MCU Major General Edwin G. Walker talking w/ Col. Wiliam A. Kuhn, CO, 1st Airborne Battle Grp, 101st Airborne. Walker into jeep w/ driver & drive off. 10:14:34 Airborne troops march down street, fix bayonets & march up. Pennant on pole w/ troops running past at double time. Troops w/ field kitchen behind High School; white girls playing softball (?) behind. Troops served in chow line, eating. Two GIs patrol along street - escort black girl students to station wagon. 10:17:01 Troops stand guard, white students walking into school behind barrier. US Army station wagon pulls up w/ black students, escorted into school as whites watch from entrance steps. Exterior school - sign Little Rock Central High School, soldiers on guard at doors, tilt up to waving students at window. Troops march up steps towards camera; down steps away from camera. 10:19:13 Walker & Kuhn talk in front of High School. Sign on jeep: Above the Rest. 1st ABN Bat. 327th Inf. Gen. Walker gets into jeep, leaves. Soldiers in two jeeps leaving. 10:20:10 Soldiers march along street, rear view as soldiers jog in double time along sidewalk on residential street. Troops running up street away from camera. CU (head chopped off) as soldier fixes bayonet - standing guard. Various shots National Guard marching around campus. GI reading newspaper while sitting on grandstand, others playing cards. Pan across field kitchen w/ soldiers sitting under trees outside National Guard Armory Building. 10:22:52 Two jeeps escorting station wagon & girls getting in, High School behind. Drive past. Civil Rights; Integration; Eisenhower Era; 1950s; Segregation;