Eisenhower Sends Troops To Little Rock

In September 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhowersent federal troopstoLittleRock, Arkansas, in response to a significant crisis surrounding the integration of Central High School. Governors Urge White House Talk: Southerners Move to Set Up Mediation Machinery in Use of Federal Troops. Troops on Guard at School; Negroes Ready to Return. Congress is Split on Use of Troops: Johnston Calls for Faubus to Resist President but Others Hail His Move. President Eisenhowersent federal troopstoLittleRock, Arkansas to enforce the Brown v Board of education Supreme Court decision. Eisenhower ordered troops from the 101st Airborne Division toLittleRock to restore order and to protect the students. After a single year of integration, Governor Faubus closed the LittleRock public high schools to avoid further integration. President Eisenhowersent federal troopstoLittleRock, Arkansas, in 1957 to enforce court-ordered integration of Central High School, following Governor Faubus's defiance against the federal ruling. Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division line the streets outside the Central High School in LittleRock, Arkansas, 1957. Eisenhower ordered the dispatch of troopsto uphold the law and addressed the nation. On September 25, protected by 1,000 members of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army and the now federalized National Guard, the nine students attended their first full day of classes. President Eisenhowersends federal troopsto defend the Constitution in LittleRock.In the same editorial, we pointed out that the repeated assurances, official and otherwise, that federal troops would not be used had the effect of encouraging Southern officials to resist the inevitable.