All Posts Tagged With: "Executive Order 10730"
Doc of the Day: Executive Order 10730
On September 24, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10730, thereby sending federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, where unruly crowds had prevented the desegregation of all-white Central High School. Not since the period of Reconstruction after the Civil War had federal troops gone to the South to maintain law and order. Many [...]
24Sep2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Chester Pach on Eisenhower and the Little Rock school crisis
Sometimes presidents take actions that surprise just about everybody, including themselves, and a good example is President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s decision fifty-one years ago to issue Executive Order 10730. Within hours after Eisenhower approved this document on September 24, 1957, U.S. Army troops arrived in Little Rock, Arkansas, to stop the violence that had prevented [...]
23Sep2008 | mdblogger | 1 comment | Continued