| Integrating Central High, Declaring the Central
High protests a national disgrace, on September 25, 1957, President Eisenhower
sent U. S. troops to protect the Little Rock Nine for the duration of the
school year. For the first time since Reconstruction, federal troops were
ordered to secure the rights of black American citizens. Source:
Sanford Wexler, The Civil Rights Movement: An Eyewitness History
(1993). |
