Little Rock Nine Dbq

President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne division troops under the federal command to protect the Little Rock Nine because Governor Faubus was against the idea of allowing nine African American children to enter an all-white school. The Brown v. Board of Education decision helped public schools to be desegregated including Central High School. After Brown v. Board of Education, the racism and discrimination African Americans encountered in education was on display through the need for Eisenhower to call in the National Guard, the exchange between angry whites and Elizabeth Eckford, and the use of the federal government to enforce the court decision.
Governor Faubus did not like the idea of the nine attending Central High School
It also created a safer environment for the African Americans especially if they didn't have anyone guarding them, they would be dead in a quick second because of the hatred that ran through the lives of the white students and community. “The federal government was using its ultimate power to compel equal treatment of the Negro in the South” (Lewis). The federal government used their power to the best of their ability to protect and bring freedom to the African Americans in the South. Even though there was disagreements with the decision tagged was made the federal government enforced their power in order for the nine to be protected and for them to get an equal education. It has been “Forty years after its nine students broke the color line, the district and it's two-whiter-neighbors remain under one of the still-standing federal desegregation orders, a legacy of administrations that built schools to serve white pocket communities” (Right of Passage). As the years passed by the nine has impact on society and the nation by breaking that racial barrier when entering Central High. It changed the school system for the better with the help of the federal government by supporting President Eisenhower’s decision. However, there was still the whites and district who
With the help of President Eisenhower’s decision of commanding the federal government to attend and protect the nine African American students. As these nine young African American individuals entered Central High with high expectations sooner came to realize that their encounter of receiving an education would be brutal. The racial exchanges between the black and whites display the hatred for one another however, over the years some of the whites realized what they had done was wrong and shameful and decide to apologize for their mistakes. Elizabeth Eckford and her experience of being denied and abuse is a living testimony of how the white community changed over time as the years