Returning to Central High Every Morning

On September 25, 1957, nine Black teenagers walked into Little Rock's Central High School under the protection of twelve hundred soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division. The nation watched that dramatic entrance. But what the cameras largely missed was what came next: those nine students — Melba Pattillo, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Minnijean Brown, Thelma Mothershed, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls — returned to that school every morning for an entire year.…