Eisenhower...Multiple Choice!!!?

Question

On the issue of school desegregation, Eisenhower:
a - did nothing.
b - openly agreed with the "Southern Manifesto" until violence erupted.
c - immediately intervended in southern states to enforce desegregation orders.
d - avoided the desegregation issue until violence occurred in Arkansas.
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Answer 1

I would say c.


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.[16] 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.

Answer 2

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/de34.html


the link has your answer i will not give it to you.




In domestic policy the President pursued a middle course, continuing most of the New Deal and Fair Deal programs, emphasizing a balanced budget. As desegregation of schools began, he sent troops into Little Rock, Arkansas, to assure compliance with the orders of a Federal court; he also ordered the complete desegregation of the Armed Forces. "There must be no second class citizens in this country," he wrote.

your answer is in that paragragh

Answer 3

You will find the answer on this page:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/de34.html
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-bkt1&p=eisenhower%20and%20desegregation