By 1957, the NAACP had registered nine black students to attend the previously all-white Little Rock Central High, selected on the criteria of excellent grades and attendance. Called the "Little Rock Nine", they were Ernest Green (b. 1941), Elizabeth Eckford (b. 1941), Jefferson Thomas (1942–2010), Terrence Roberts (b.
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The decision declared that separate educational facilities for white and African American students were inherently unequal. ... Board of Education of Topeka helped to inspire the American civil rights movement of the late 1950s and 1960s.