A Federal Judge named Ronald Davis had the Department of Justice obtain information of who was resisting the court order. Faubus informed the President Dwight Eisenhower that he was going to resist the order and expect the President to understand. The President responded that “he would honor his oath to support and uphold the Constitution” (67 Raffel).The President and Governor Faubus meet to discuss the matter at hand. Eisenhower thought that he should keep the National Guard there but change their orders. Faubus did not change the orders but when the judge ordered that the National Guard and Faubus were obstructing desegregation. The Governor withdrew his troops until a safe return of the black students could be made.

The Black students tried again on September 23 to enter the school, but were meet by an angry crowd. The crowd had armed itself and could not be controlled by local law enforcement. “ Ten thousand members of the Arkansas National Guard were nationalized, and 1000 combat ready paratroopers of the 101^st Airborne Division, veterans of the Korean War, arrived on the scene” (68 Raffel). The black student began their education at Central High School. In spite of rather seeing the High School become desegregated Governor Faubus had all three closed. The schools were eventually reopened on a desegregation basis. This event showed that a state has to do to protect the rights of its people even in the event of violence. This also showed “the supremacy of the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in upholding the U.S. Constitution over the actions of governors and state legislators” (69 Raffel).

View a documentary about the Little Rock nine here.