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Blossom Plan. The original plan was to start the integration at the elementary schools, but as more elementary school parents spoke their opinions the plan was altered to begin integration in the fall of 1957 at Central High School, then to the junior high by 1960 and to the elementary level by 1963. The plan also included that any student whose race was a minority in their school could ask for a transfer. Despite the plan General Faubus called the National Guard to turn students away from the school. On February 8, 1956 the court made the Blossom plan a "court mandated operation," and it was carried out with the help of President Eisenhower. Virgil Blossom received numerous death threats and promises to put him out of work during his term as the superintendent.
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