How the Airborne Protected the Little Rock Nine

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Sources:
• https://fas.org/man/eprint/disorders.pdf
• https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/d...
• Department of the Army Tables of Organization 7-31D “Airborne Division Battle Group” and 7-37D “Rifle Company, Airborne Division Battle Group” (Washington DC 31 July 1958).
• Title 10, U.S. Code (Sections 332, 333, 334)
• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
• Brown II (1955)
• Cooper v. Aaron (1958)

Waypoints:
Historical Context: (0:00)
Army Planning: (1:26)
101st Airborne Deploys: (3:37)
Aftermath: (9:36)