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what did president dwight eisenhower think about eduacational rights?

2007-01-26 04:56:02 · 2 answers · asked by Taylor P 1 in Politics & Government Government

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Eisenhower supported the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka U.S. Supreme Court decision, in which segregated (separate but equal) schools were ruled to be unconstitutional. The very next day he told District of Columbia officials to make Washington a model for the rest of the country in integrating ***** and white public school children. Liberal critics complained Eisenhower was never enthusiastic about civil rights, but he did propose to Congress the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 and signed those acts into law, although both Acts were very weak and added little to the total electorate. Nonetheless, they constituted the first significant civil rights Acts since the 1870s. He also sent soldiers to Little Rock, Arkansas to integrate their schools, and admitted multi-racial Hawaii as a state in 1959.

The Little Rock Central High School crisis of 1957 involved state refusal to honor a federal court order to integrate the schools. Eisenhower placed the Arkansas National Guard under federal control and sent Army troops to escort nine black students into the all-white school; this incident did not occur without violence. Eisenhower and Arkansas governor Orval Faubus engaged in tense arguments during this tumultuous period in history.

2007-01-29 07:55:03 · answer #1 · answered by Woody 6 · 0 0

right it is a few thing they did no longer enable you comprehend approximately Ike, he voted maximum of his existence a Democrat yet might desire to easily get elected by ability of adjusting right into a Republican. in case you ask the Republicans to call 3 large Republican Presidents, he would be one in all them. Hatred of a guy can cloud what you notice and in case you drag down the Presidency under the Democrats, it will be greater durable to construct it back whilst the Republicans come again in. this is going to ensue for the Democrats can no longer save the place of work continuously or the Republicans can no longer save springing up with losers, I voted for the losers.

2016-11-01 08:42:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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