The Little Rock Nine referred to this group of people.
Nine people held hostage
Nine firefighters cited for heroism
Nine powerful state legislators
African-American high school students
Nine African-American high school students who integrated all-white Central High School in 1957. Governor Orval Faubus, who became a five-term governor, called the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the integration, but President Dwight Eisenhower federalized the Guard and ordered them to enforce the integration.