History for the day: 1957: Central High School is integrated

On 25 September 1957, with three hundred National Guard troops standing by, nine black children were escorted to Central High School (photo, top) in Little Rock, Arkansas, days after unruly white crowds (photo, bottom) had forced them to withdraw.

Rico says it looks quaint now, but it was scary then... (Rico says he was a child, but he remembers...)