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Handout C: Images of Desegregation

Handout C: Images of Desegregation

Bayonet Point, September 25, 1957
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

Terrence Roberts and Two Arkansas National Guardsmen, September 4, 1957
Courtesy of Central High School Museum Historical Collections/UALR Archives and Special Collections

  1. In the photo on the left, what duties are the members of the 101st Airborne Division carrying out with respect to the integration protestors?
  2. How does this action compare with the one depicted in the photo at the right?