The nine brave students, known as the Little Rock Nine, integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. Their efforts to attend the previously all-white school were met with violent opposition, leading President Dwight D. Eisenhower to deploy federal troops to ensure their safety and uphold the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which mandated desegregation in public schools. The integration was a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
President John F. Kennedy sent 127 deputy U.S. Marshals to enforce the federal law that allowed James Meridith to become the first black to legally attend the University of Mississippi.
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President in return for withdrawing federal troops from the South.
Federal troops
Meade commanded the Federal troops.
true
President Eisenhower
integrate the public schools
Toby Keith
president eisenhower
Little Rock, Arkansas
federal troops were union soilders
In a word, he used federal troops to force the integration of Little Rock Central High. On September 2,1957 nine African-American students planned to integrate the previously all-white Little Rock Arkansas Central High School. Gov. Faubus , saying that he feared rioting, had the school surrounded by national guardsmen and warned all blacks to stay away from the area. On September 20, a federal judge issued an injunction ordering Faubus to call off the guard and allow the students to integrate the schools. They entered the school and a mob gathered outside and threatened to attack the school. The student escaped out the back. Eisenhower then set federal paratroopers in to escort the students and guarded them day after day until January, when they were no longer needed.
No, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent the National Guard to Arkansas in 1957 during the contentious battle over school desegregation in Little Rock, when nine black students tried to integrate Central High School.
In a word, he used federal troops to force the integration of Little Rock Central High. On September 2,1957 nine African-American students planned to integrate the previously all-white Little Rock Arkansas Central High School. Gov. Faubus , saying that he feared rioting, had the school surrounded by national guardsmen and warned all blacks to stay away from the area. On September 20, a federal judge issued an injunction ordering Faubus to call off the guard and allow the students to integrate the schools. They entered the school and a mob gathered outside and threatened to attack the school. The student escaped out the back. Eisenhower then set federal paratroopers in to escort the students and guarded them day after day until January, when they were no longer needed.
No.
President John.F.Kennedy
federal troops were union soilders