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Newport News Shipbuilding Authenticates Keel Of Attack Sub Arkansas

By Barrett Baker
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NNS President Jennifer Boykin looks on as members of the Little Rock Nine, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed Wair assisted by PCU Arkansas commanding officer Cmdr. Adam Kahnke, Elizabeth Eckford, Gloria Ray Karlmark and Carlotta Walls Lanier, etch their initials onto steel plates during the keel authentication ceremony for Virginia¬-class submarine Arkansas (SSN 800). Photo courtesy of Ashley Cowan/HII.

NEWPORT NEWS—The Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division of HII hosted a keel authentication ceremony on Saturday, November 19 for the Virginia-class submarine Arkansas (SSN 600). Present at the event were the ship’s sponsors, six women from the group known at the Little Rock Nine, the first African American students to attend all white Central High School in Little Rock, AR during desegregation. Newport News Shipbuilding honored all nine members of the group during the ceremony.

The Little Rock Nine made history in 1957 with their response to the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional. Faced with shouting mobs, threats of violence, and hostile state leaders who tried to block their entrance into the school, the teenagers were escorted in by federal troops at the direction of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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