Nine African American students, known as the 'Little Rock Nine,' enrolled at the previously all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, testing the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. Facing violent mobs and resistance from state officials, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops from the 101st Airborne Division to escort the students into the school. The event became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement, symbolizing the struggle to enforce desegregation in the United States.