"Why Eisenhower Sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock" Topic
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Tango01 | 28 Nov 2020 9:29 p.m. PST |
… After Brown v. Board "When the Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that separate schools for whites and blacks were unconstitutional and inherently unequal, the slow and often violent dismantling of segregation in educational institutions began across the country. Knowing that there would be defiance and resistance toward the Brown v. Board of Education decision, particularly in the South where Jim Crow prevailed, the Supreme Court refrained from setting a specific deadline for schools to begin the desegregation process. But in 1955, in a subsequent ruling that addressed the lagging progress being made by states, the court demanded that integration happen "with all deliberate speed." The school board of Little Rock, Arkansas, voted to desegregate their high schools starting in 1957, which led to a crisis that catapulted the state's governor into a showdown with the president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Legion 4 | 29 Nov 2020 8:40 a.m. PST |
A well known incident with older Americans. It was the right thing to do. Sad you have to send Paratroopers to allow children of color to get to school. Just shows how foolish, etc. those people who opposed it are. And some still think that way … |
Kevin C | 29 Nov 2020 9:36 a.m. PST |
Two of my colleagues that I worked with at the previous university where I worked were members of the second or third groups of black students to be integrated at Central High, the parents of one of my classmates in high school were white students who attended Central High when the soldiers were sent to the school, and my high school band director had been one of the National Guardsmen who served at Central high at the time. Needless to say, I have had the good fortune to listen to numerous first-hand accounts of this incident in American history and have passed these accounts on to my students. |
Legion 4 | 29 Nov 2020 10:32 a.m. PST |
We have to keep our history alive to know to what happened so it won't happen again. But even that sometimes does not work sadly. |
Tango01 | 29 Nov 2020 3:15 p.m. PST |
Thanks!. Amicalement Armand |
jefritrout | 01 Dec 2020 9:51 a.m. PST |
In the early 70s, my dad was in a foursome on the Fort Meade golf course with 3 other officers. My dad was joking about his colleague being from Arkansas. The other two more senior officers both stated that they enjoyed their time in the state. When my dad pressed about why they would be in Arkansas, the most senior informed that he was a captain in the 101st during the Little Rock incident and was deployed at the school. My dad turned to his colleague and said that you were around the age of a high school junior at the time. He replied that he was a senior at the high school. And yes, he was out front protesting. The conversation was a bit awkward for the next hole. |
Tango01 | 01 Dec 2020 12:30 p.m. PST |
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Legion 4 | 01 Dec 2020 4:26 p.m. PST |
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