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Gloria Ray Karlmark
Member of the Little Rock Nine
Gloria Cecelia Ray Karlmark (born September 26, ) is a member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African-American students who desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in [1] One of the three children of Harvey C. and Julia Miller Ray, she was 15 when she attempted to enter Little Rock Central High School where she was barred from entering by the Arkansas National Guard, under the order of Governor Orval Faubus who opposed integration. They returned to the school weeks later protected by federal troops.[2]
In , she graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Mathematics.[3] She worked briefly as a public school teacher and research assistant at the University of Chicago Research Medical Center. Ray married Krister Karlmark in , and in , she joined International Business Machine's (IBM) Nordic Laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden, where Karl marx theory capitalism.