Posted on 09/12/2007 9:05:03 AM PDT by syriacus
President Sends Troops to Little Rock, Federalizes Arkansas National Guard; Tells Nation He Acted to Avoid An Anarchy
Eisenhower on Air Says School Defiance Has Gravely Harmed Prestige of U.S. President
Warns of Anarchy Peril
Washington, Sept. 24--President Eisenhower sent Federal troops to Little Rock, Ark., today to open the way for the admission of nine Negro pupils to Central High School.
Earlier, the President federalized the Arkansas National Guard and authorized calling the Guard and regular Federal forces to remove obstructions to justice in Little Rock school integration.
His history-making action was based on a formal finding that his "cease and desist" proclamation, issued last night, had not been obeyed. Mobs of pro-segregationists still gathered in the vicinity of Central High School this morning.
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This action by Ike showed that the federal government would enforce integration, by force if needed.
How ironic that southern Democrats of the time were so against this action, by a Republican president. Yet today the Democratic party gets 90+% of the black vote, and Republicans are alleged to be insensitive to minorities.
Ike had nothing to gain politically by sending troops to Little Rock. Could we give Ike credit for taking a principled stand?
I was in a STRAC unit at Fort Hood and we went on full alert.
In 1956 my dad dragged us kids kicking and screaming from the western states to the hills of Arkansas. When the crisis hit in 1967 we had to ask..”What is segregation?”
We had gone to schools with Hispanics, Blacks, Indians and could not comprehend keeping kids out of school because of the color of their skin.
The school here which was all white in 1956-7 now has whites, Laotians,Hispanics (Lots of hispanics)Chinese and Japaneese. Our town even had a Hindu temple.
My how times have changed.
Our town even had a Hindu temple.
Our town even HAS a Hindu temple.
Amazing how this fact is hidden from the public at large.
They were ready to kick some democrat ass, if necessary.
That was the OLD Democratic Party.
Today’s Democrats are ultra liberal quota supporters,completely the flip side of the old Bilbo-Talmadge-Russell Democrats of old.
Today's Democrats don't know their party used to be the slave party.
The leaders did a switcheroo and gave big Fed money to the blacks to cover their sin. Then they lied and imply that the Repubs were the slave-owners.
Today's stupid Dems believe that.
“How ironic that southern Democrats of the time were so against this action, by a Republican president. Yet today the Democratic party gets 90+% of the black vote, and Republicans are alleged to be insensitive to minorities.”
Every time I use an analogy like that when posting to the libs at my local newspaper message board one will inevitably reply “The old democrat party of the south is the republican party of today”.
Idiots.
This is a popular argument on FR, but it's invalid and a waste of time to pursue. The "Dixiecrats" of the 50's (Strom Thrumond and his ilk) all switched to the Republican Party later, so trying to claim today's Democrats represent the party of slavery and a legacy of Southern white supremacy doesn't really work. Blacks know this, and are never going to blame modern liberal Democrats for what Southerners who called themselves Democrats did in the past. They see (correctly) that the few remaining heirs of that tradition have all become Republicans.
Today's Democrats have plenty of genuine flaws - there's no need to invent new past sins for them.
Don't kid yourself. In most respects, they haven't change at all. In the 1950s, they were all "New Deal" FDR types looking for Federal bucks wherever they could get them and they played to race and class cards at every opportunity to divide and conquer. Other than dealing the race card from the other side of the deck now, nothing has changed. Segregation and Quotas are not the "flip side" of a coin. They are both racial discrimination.
Yes, the Dixie-crats who always believed in small gov't came over, but the Dems who just want power for power's sake? Stayed in the party and bought black votes through social programs.
I need to look more into this.
Name one other beside Thurmond who switched to the GOP. I don't recall Richard Russle, Robert 'Sheets' Byrd, William Fullbright or Al Gore Sr. ever becoming Republicans.
I agree.Both segregation and quotas are un American.
Yet I think the 1964 Goldwater debacle forever changed the landscape.Dems made him out to be the anti civil rights candidate and the charge,unjust as it was,stuck in the minds of blacks and white liberals.
Liberal propoganda. Most "dixiecrats" stayed within the Democratic fold.
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