| A | B |
|---|
| Little Rock police chief responsible for security at CHS | Marvin Potts |
| Army Major General who commanded the 101st airborne division soldiers sent to Little Rock | Edwin Walker |
| NAACP Cheif counsel | Thurgood Marshall |
| Arkansas Attorney General and the state's Chief Legal Officer | Bruce Bennett |
| President of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP and coordinator of the plan to enroll 9 African-American students | Daisy Bates |
| Principal of CHS | Jess Matthews |
| mayor of Little Rock | Woodrow Wilson Mann |
| Superintendent of Little Rock's public schools since 1953 | Virgil Blossom |
| Pine Bluff native who was an attorney for the NAACP's Little Rock court proceedings | Wiley Branton |
| US Attorney General and legal advisor to President Eisenhower on the school situation | Herbert Brownem |
| was expelled from CHS in February 1958-she moved with her husband to Canada and is a social worker in Ontario(filmed a documentary of her life) | Minniejean Brown Trickey |
| Little Rock 9 | Minniejean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Terrance Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, Carlotta Walls |
| governor of Arkansas serving the 2nd of his 6, 2-year terms | Orval Faubus |
| Republican president of the U.S., in the 1st year of his 2nd term | Dwight Eisenhower |
| lawyer of strongly segregationist views and a leader of the Capital Citizens Council of Little Rock | Amis Guthridge |
| democratic congressman from central Arkansas, considered a racial moderate | Brooks Hays |
| Vice Principal for girls at CHS from 1954-1969, helped assist the 9 through the school year | Elizabeth Huckaby |
| loser of the 1956 democratic gubernatorial primary as an outspoken segregationist | James D. "Jim" Johnson |
| 1st black student to graduate from CHS and is now managing partner & vice president fo Lehman Brothers in Washington DC(2007) | Ernest Green |
| only one of 9 still living in Little Rock(part-time social worker and mother of 2) | Elizabeth Eckford |
| graduated from CHS in 1960(now an accountant with the U.S. Department of Defense) | Jefferson Thomas |
| his family moved to LA, where he completed high school(is now teacher and clinical psychologist) | Dr. Terrence Roberts |
| author and former journalist for People Magazine and NBC, lives in San Francisco(2007) | Melba Pattillo Beals |
| only 1 of 3 of the 9 who graduated from CHS, now in real estate(2007) | Carlotta Walls Lanier |
| Federal district judge assigned temporarily from North Dakota to Arkansas to handle desegregation cases | Ronald Davies |
| when & where did the desegregation of Little Rock Central High take place? | 1957-1958 school year in Arkansas |
| graduated from Illinois Tech. College and now retired, she has home in Amsterdam, Netherlands & Stockholm | Gloria Ray Karlmark |
| graduated from college, then started teaching(lives in Belleville where she volunteers in a program for abused women-2007) | Thelma Mothershed-Wair |
