Tom Hara, Dreyer Field House manager passes a large photo of Little Rock Central High School and 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Soldiers who helped protect the Little Rock Nine after the Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. Some 600 101st Abn. Div. Soldiers assigned to 1-327th Airborne Bat-tle Group were deployed to protect the nine black students from protestors for about three months, said John O’Brien, director of the Brig. Gen. Don F. Pratt Memorial Museum.
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Historian shares 101st Airborne Division’s Black History Month moments
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