Nine black students faced down a mob to integrate Little Rock Central High School. Fifty years later, they are being honored on a commemorative silver coin.
The U.S. Mint unveiled the coin today at the NAACP's Daisy Bates Education Summit, with six of the nine planning to attend a discussion with current students.
Integration at Central High in 1957 was the first major test of the Supreme Court's ruling, three years earlier, against racial discrimination in public schools.