A team of NAACP lawyers – including future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall – led a protracted legal battle to successfully integrate Little Rock’s Central High School. Here, six of the Little Rock Nine are photographed in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. From left: Carlotta Walls, Melba Pattillo, Jefferson Thomas, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray and Elizabeth Eckford. Photo by William J. Smith/AP Images.
