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The next day, the mayor of Little Rock, Woodrow Wilson Mann, requested federal troops to enforce integration at Central High.

President Eisenhower deployed the 101st Airborne Division to the school to escort the nine students and the division remained there for the remainder of the school year.

The Mother's League petitioned Judge Davies to force the removal of the federal troops on October 17, 1957, but he dismissed the petition.