Eisenhower and Civil Rights Personally disagreed

with segregation BUT thought it should end gradually as values changed

Navy shipyards/veterans hospitals desegregated

Refused to endorse B v. BoE

CRISIS IN LITTLE ROCK

The Civil Rights Movement and School Integration

Ruby Bridges

Melba Pattillo

What was going on at the time….

Brown II "all deliberate speed” In September 1957, the school board in Little

Rock, Arkansas, won a court order to admit nine African American students to Central High, a school with 2,000 white students.

Arkansas Governor Orville Fabus Moderate? White supremacy Faubus order that his state's

national guard unit block the admission of the nine African American students to Little Rock's Central High School in 1957. The nearly month-long confrontation ended when President Eisenhower sent in U.S. troops to protect the students.

Faubus, using the armed forces of a state to oppose the authority of the federal government, was the first to challenge the Constitiution since the civil war.

Instead of ending the crisis, Faubus left the school to the mob where angry whites beat two African American reporters and broke many of the school’s windows.

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What reasons did Melba Patillo Beals give for wanting to go to Central High School?

  Why did white students oppose admitting her and other

black students to the school?   Describe Beals's experiences on these three days: the first

day she went with her mother to the school; the first time she was allowed inside the school; and the next time she went to school, with the 101st Airborne Division escort.

  What was the long-term impact of Beals's experience at

Central High School?

Essay

Reflect on if you would be able to be as brave as Melba. Put yourself in her shoes and write a paragraph about if you could do what she did and what your feelings would be.

Effects

Eisenhower sends troops to Little Rock

New Civil Rights Legislation- There were poll taxes, literacy tests previously 20% of African Americans were registered to

vote States had the power

Civil Rights Act of 1957- Federal government found oversight– (voting of

President, Vice President and Congress)