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This was the scene last night at Little Rock's Central High School, Sept. 23, 1957. The school will be open to all pupils as a result of a court orde...

A reporter from the Tri-State Defender, Alex Wilson, is shoved by an angry mob of white people near Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 23...

Sugar Ray Robinson stings Carmen Basilio with a long right in the 14th round of the title fight at the Yankee Stadium in New York City, Sept.23, 1957....

This is the scene at Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., after the school was opened to all students, Sept. 23, 1957. City and state police gua...

The new middleweight boxing champion of the world, Carmen Basilio, is hoisted to the shoulders of his trainer Angelo Dundee (left) and co-manager John...

Eric Kemp, an aircraft engineer from Melbourne, Australia, tests his motorcycle, of unusual design, on a Melbourne road, Sept. 23, 1957. Kemp was insp...

Terrence Roberts, 15, one of the nine black students who tried to enter Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., is seen reading a story in the Arkan...

British Heavyweight champion Joe Erskine of Wales, left, lands a hard left to the nose of challenger Henry Cooper of Bellingham, Kent, during their ti...

Professor Manfred Sakel (left) of New York smiles as he receives a scroll honoring him on the 30th anniversary of his discovery of the insulin shock t...

Terrance Roberts, 15, whose efforts to enter an all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, were thwarted by National Guardsman, listeners for a...

Mystery author Agatha Christie reads a telegram of congratulations from Noel Coward in a St. Martin's Lane restaurant, London, Sept. 12, 1957, the 1,9...

Althea Gibson, left, and Mal Anderson hold their trophies after their victories in the National Tennis Championships in Forest Hills, N.Y., Sept. 8, 1...

Left to right: Dorothy Frazier, 13, Minnie Brown, 15, and Thelma Mothershed, 16, wait in a corridor of the U.S. Courthouse at Little Rock, Ark., wher...

Teenagers who heckled passersby at Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., are held by National Guardsmen and told to either quiet down or be escort...

Actor Mickey Rooney as

Actor Mickey Rooney as

Rosemery Clooney will be the singing hostess of the new colorcast,

The San Francisco City Hall building, with its dome towering 300 feet, makes a great mound of light topped by a pointed peak in this night view of the...

Vice President Richard Nixon shakes hands of Angel Macias, 12-year-old no-hit pitcher for the Monterrey, Mexico, Little League Champions, during the t...

The rear end of the infamous Edsel in seen at a car dealership in Detroit, Mich., Aug. 20, 1957. This particular model is the Edsel Citation 4 door ha...

Visitors to the Radio and Television Fair literally watch the effect of their words on a TV telephone set up in Frankfurt, West Germany, Aug. 21, 1957...

Tree branches almost touch the head of the bass fiddle player in Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians who performs daily on the lawn at Shawnee-on-the-Delawar...

Actor Harry Belafonte, left, and singer Nat

A television screen peers from a mass of shapes typical of contemporary furniture design in this avant-garde cabinet for canned music called the

Dow Finsterwald, second in PGA Championship in 1957, holds check on July 21, 1957.(AP Photo)

Waving cap, PGA champ Lionel Herbert of Lafayette, La., moves across 31st green July 21, 1957 in Dayton, Ohio after crowd applauded long putt for bird...

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For more than two months in the summer of 1932 World War I veterans from all over the country converged on Washington, D.C., to demand passage of a b...

Actor Gary Cooper, his wife, Veronica, and daughter, Maria, arrive from Paris to New York aboard an Air France plane at New York International Airport...

Althea Gibson of New York makes a low return to Darlene Hard of Montebello, Calif., in their title match in All-England Lawn Tennis Championships at...

Althea Gibson of New York city, holding the large gold plate presented to her as the winner of the Women's Singles Tennis title at Wimbledon, England,...

New York's Althea Gibson poises for a return volley during the Semi Final Women's Singles Match with Britain's Christine Truman in the All England Ten...

Superintendant of the Grossen Haus der Kuenste (The Grand House of Arts), Maisch, welcomes star soprano Maria Meneghini Callas a bunch of roses as sh...

Dr. Robert Francis Goheen, 37, left, chats with Dr. Harold W. Dodds July 1, 1957 after being installed as 16th President of Princeton University at Pr...

Movie actor Henry Fonda, with his children, Jane and Peter, are shown at New York International Airport boarding a clipper airplane June 25, 1957 for...

Drivers sprint across the track to their cars in the traditional

Fourteen-year-old chess sensation Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, N.Y., starts to make a move with his queen during a tournament match with Charles Saxon a...

A flight of steps in the center mark the entrance to the Bran Castle in Romania, June 18, 1957. The castle was built above the Bran Pass in 1377 by th...

Barbara Sherwood of Pacific Grove, Calif., appeared at the House Un-Americans Activities Sub-committee hearing in San Francisco, June 18, 1957, where...

Barbara Sherwood of Pacific Grove, Calif., appeared at the House Un-Americans Activities Sub-committee hearing in San Francisco, June 18, 1957, where...

New York Giants' centerfielder Willie Mays catches a long fly hit by St. Louis Cardinals' Wally Moon in the fourth inning of the game at the Polo Grou...

The huge power transformers of Hoover Dam dwarf the girls of the Las Vegas High School precision dance group called the

Federico Fellini right, Italian director who is in Hollywood to receive the Screen Director's Guild first annual award for direction of the movie,

Milwaukee Braves' outfielder Bill Bruton appears confident, upper left, as he goes for a Texas leaguer off the bat of New York Giants' Willie Mays in...

Canadian Pianist Glenn Gould, left, speaks with Soviet Pianist Tatyana Nikolayova after his recent recital at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservator...

7 were killed and 91 wounded when 3 bombs exploded almost simultaneously in Algiers centre June 3, 1957. Each bomb had been placed inside a street la...

U.S. Amb. to Germany David K. Bruce and his family are shown in their cabin aboard the American liner United States before it sailed for Europe, June...

Rev. Billy Graham goes over some Bible passages as his wife, Ruth, looks on May 24, 1957 before he addressed an overflow crowd of his crusade at New Y...

Glum looking refugee students from Communist Hungary demonstrate in front of the American Consulate in Vienna, Austria on May 23, 1957. The youths, mo...

The mangled wreckage of the Ferrari of Spain's Alfonso De Portago, lies in a ditch near Mantua, Italy, May 12, 1957. The car crashed into spectators,...