White Mobs Taunt Elizabeth Eckford, After President Eisenhower forced Arkansas Governor Faubus to remove the National Guard from Central High, Elizabeth Eckford and eight other African-American students finally came to school in late September, 1957. White students and segregationists from across the South angrily protested against the "Little Rock Nine", however. Source: Marcia Cohen, The Sisterhood: The True Story Behind the Women's Movement (1988).