Little Rock, Arkansas
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- Created on: 10-04-15 13:35
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- Little Rock, Arkansas
- 1957- the Supreme Court ordered the Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, to let 9 black students attend the all white high school in Little Rock
- Day before the school should have accepted them
- Faubus ordered 270 national guard troops to move into the high school
- claimed it was because the troops needed to maintain law and he couldn't guarantee the students' safety
- really was to keep the 9 African American students out of the high school
- His actions made him very popular with the white population- he was re-elected 6 times
- Faubus ordered 270 national guard troops to move into the high school
- President Eisenhower responded to Faubus' actions. He did this to protect the students and to make sure they were allowed to join the school
- sent in 10,000 National Guardsmen for a full year
- sent in 1,000 paratroopers for 6 weeks
- his actions showed to the world and the rest of the population that he was determined to enforce the Supreme Courts ruling
- However, Eisenhower's actions were limited
- still no black children in white schools in the states of Alabama, Mississippi or Carolina
- progress was extremely slow
- Civil Rights campaigners began to question whether indirect action using legal methods was working
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