The Little Rock Nine were the 9 Black students who attempted Little Rock Central High starting on September 23, 1957

1. The number 57 on the slogan "57 Styles" printed on Heinz ketchup bottles has no practical significance. It is simply just the combination of Henry John Heinz's favorite number, 5, and his wife Sally Sloan's, 7.
2. Little Rock Senior High School, later to be renamed Little Rock Central High was the site of nine African-American students, known as the Little Rock Nine, who were denied entrance to the school in defiance of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling ordering integration of public schools on the morning of September 23, 1957. The next day, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the 1,200-man 101st Airborne Battle Group of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to escort the nine students into the school.