Question

The African American students who integrated Central High School are known as the ____.

a) Freedom Riders
b) Little Rock Nine
c) Little Rock Six
d) Central High Five

Answer 1

The correct answer is the Little Rock Nine.

Explanation: In September 1957, the nine African American students were denied access to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas by Arkansas Governor Faubus. President Eisenhower however intervened and nationalized the Arkansas Natioal Guard ordering them to get the students into the school and to protect them.