The ensue Little Rock Crisis , in which the students were initially stopped from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus , and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower , is thought to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement . The ensuing Little Rock Crisis , in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus , and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower , is considered to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement .