[syriacus]

From the website:

Little Rock School Integration Crisis

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education that segregated schools are "inherently unequal."  In September 1957, as a result of that ruling, nine African-American students enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The ensuing struggle between segregationists and integrationists, the State of Arkansas and the federal government, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus has become known in modern American history as the "Little Rock Crisis."

The crisis gained attention world-wide.

When Governor Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to surround Central High School to keep the nine students from entering the school, President Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock to insure the safety of the "Little Rock Nine" and that the rulings of the Supreme Court were upheld.

The manuscript holdings of the Eisenhower Library contain a large amount of documentation on this historic test of the Brown vs. Topeka ruling and school integration.

[eyespysomething]

I'll tell you what. When lefties blab on about how brave they are for protesting in America, I think of people like the Little Rock 9, or Rosa Parks, or the anti-regime protesters in Iran, or those helping the Jewish citizens of their countries in WWII. Now, that's bravery. I can only hope, if ever in a situation like any of those or many others, I would also act in a courageous way.

[syriacus]

Non-violent approaches to gaining freedom and rights are a good thing.

But we should also pause to remember the Presidents and the men and women of the military who protected the lives of those who were seeking their rights.

[SR 50]

I've heard this story. Bill Clinton told this story, and how he was there that day and remembered it as if it were just yesterday. Telling how he......

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Thanks for posting this telegram. It is especially relevant given the sad performance of the sad little peanut man from Georgia yesterday at Coretta King's funeral.

[tkathy]

Eisenhower was the first great civil rights president.