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During the summer of 1957, Melba Pattillo, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls, Jefferson Thomas, Gloria Ray, and Thelma Mothershed, enrolled at Little Rock Central High School, which until then had been all white.
Groups of white Tulsans—some of whom were deputized and "given weapons by city officials" committed numerous acts of violence against Black people, including shooting an unarmed man in a theater. They lied about an insurrection among Black Tulsans so White people could kill.