When were US federal troops used to protect African-American students?

To protect African American students To enforce the law He wanted to protect the students from a mob ...

President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent 1000 troops to protect African American students entering Little Rock Central on 23 September 1957. ...

He wanted to protect the students from a mob

He wanted to protect the students from a mob

He wanted to protect the students from a mob.

refused to use Federal troops to protect the Cherokee tribe

federal troops were union soilders

It was President Eisenhower who sent federal troops to Arkansas in order to make sure African-American students were able to go to school. Eisenhower was president from 1953 to 1961. ...

He ordered Army troops in to insure integration of the high school

Little Rock, AR Central High School

Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas. The school was guarded because 9 African Americans (known as the Little Rock Nine) were integrating the school. Governor Orval Faubus wanted to keep the school segregated so President Eisenhower sent the federal troops in to protect the African American students Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas. The school was guarded because 9 African Americans (known as the Little Rock Nine) were integrating the school. Governor Orval Faubus wanted to keep the school segregated so...

President Eisenhower had not previously acted in the desegregation argument. However, he then intervened. While the president did not actively support desegregation and had reservations about the Brown decision, he understood his constitutional responsibility to uphold the federal authority. Eisenhower ordered federal troops to stand guard in Little Rock and protect black students as they walked to school. He therefore became the first president since Reconstruction to use federal troops to protect the rights of African Americans. so while he did not necessarily support...

He sent troops to protect the students as they entered the school.

He sent troops to protect the students as they entered the school. Apex

The Little Rock school board had established a plan to desegregate its schools, beginning with Central High School. Nine young African American students offered to enroll. But Arkansas governor Orval Faubus announced his opposition to integration and called out the Arkansas state National Guard. When the nine students arrived at the school, the National Guard blocked their way of entry. None of the nine students gained entrance into the school that day. Up until the Little Rock crisis occurred, President Eisenhower had provided small...

Yes, so troops just protect the area.

The President that removed the federal troops from South Carolina and Louisiana was the 19th president of the United States of America, Rutherford B. Hayes. He removed the federal troops and ended Reconstrution. ...

Meade commanded the Federal troops.

Eisenhower's most dramatic response occurred in 1957 when Governor Faubus of Arkansas called out the Arkansas national guard to block Negro students from attending Little Rock High School. Eisenhower sent in federal troops and took over the national guard from Arkansas. The federal troops made sure the black students were allowed to go to class. ...

Hayes withdrew the troops federal troops from the South

to help protect freedmen (freed Africans) and keep the peace, Basically they were a police force till the South got back on its feet. ...

Lincoln did not declare war not did he ask Congress to declare war. He did command federal troops to protect government property when they were fired upon. ...

he send troops to protect them selves from the north

The last of the federal troops pulled out of the south in 1877. This was done on the orders of Rutherford B. Hayes who was the President at that time. ...

President Grover Cleveland sent federal troops to Chicago to settle the Pullman strike. He sent 12,000 United States Army troops. ...