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People, Education, Race, USA, Little Rock, Arkansas, pic: October 1957, Under the watchful eye of paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division black girl students enter Central High School to attend newly integrated classes, during the integration crisis that focussed on Little Rock in 1957 (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

People, Education, Race, USA, Little Rock, Arkansas, pic: October 1957, Under the watchful eye of paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division black girl students enter Central High School to attend newly integrated classes, during the integration crisis that focussed on Little Rock in 1957  (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

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Education, Segregation, USA, pic: circa 1957, Little Rock, Arkansas, National Guardsmen, having admitted white children to a school, barr the way to a black student (Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

Education, Segregation, USA, pic: circa 1957, Little Rock, Arkansas, National Guardsmen, having admitted white children to a school, barr the way to a black student  (Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

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Education, Segregation, USA, pic: September 1957, Birmingham, Alabama, A group of white youths harass a black family in a car who were driving to Woodland High School to follow the integration policy that had been introduced (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

Education, Segregation, USA, pic: September 1957, Birmingham, Alabama, A group of white youths harass a black family in a car who were driving to Woodland High School to follow the integration policy that had been introduced  (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

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Education, Segregation, USA, pic: 3rd September 1957, Greensboro, North Carolina, Black students, escorted by a policeman calmly pass a crowd of whites, opposed to their integration at schools in Greensboro (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

Education, Segregation, USA, pic: 3rd September 1957, Greensboro, North Carolina, Black students, escorted by a policeman calmly pass a crowd of whites, opposed to their integration at schools in Greensboro  (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

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Education, Segregation, USA, pic: September 1957, Arlington, Virginia, Two young black students leaving Stratford Junior High School after being refused admission by the authorities (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

Education, Segregation, USA, pic: September 1957, Arlington, Virginia, Two young black students leaving Stratford Junior High School after being refused admission by the authorities  (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)