Thursday, February 13, 2014

Explain the events that happened after the Little Rock Nine tried to integrate into a previously all-white high school.

Some political details to add to the timeline above could
include the fact that Governor Orval Faubus was considered a moderate, but he had a
tough re-election challenge from a segregationist that year, so his policy preventing
the Little Rock Nine from attending Central High School was mostly a ploy to get
re-elected.  After the first year during which federal troops escorted the students to
class, Faubus shut down all of Little Rock's schools, and was overwhelmingly
re-elected.


President Eisenhower, who was the Supreme
Allied Commander in World War II of a still segregated army, was no fan of integrating
the South.  However, he enforced the court ruling he disagreed with, putting the
Constitution and his job as President above any personal feelings he may have
had.

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