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Ike Places Ark. National Guard Under Army Control; U.S. Troops Guard Negroes Entering School
The Crimson ^ | Sept 25, 1957 | AP

Posted on 04/04/2018 7:18:41 PM PDT by 11th_VA

LITTLE ROCK--Paratroopers from the Army's famed 101st Airborne Division took up stations around Central High School Tuesday night, scene of disorders resulting from efforts to integrate Negro pupils in the school. The force, said to number 500, split--one group going to the high school and the other to Little Rock's National Guard armory. A number of Negro paratroopers were seen in convey trucks.

The troops, stationed at Ft. Campbell, Ky. were flown to Little Rock after President Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and authorized use of regular troops to enforce federal school intgration orders.

Federalizing of the Arkansas National Guard and the Star Air National Guard placed 9,900 guardsmen under Army control and took them from state control.

Gov. Orval Faubus, until today civilian commander of the Guard, called up some of the guardsmen Sept. 2, he said, to prevent Negroes from entering Central High School and to prevent violence.

"If federal troops are there to protect the children, the Negro children will go to school tomorrow," said Mrs. L. C. Bates, NAACP state leader.

Faubus arrives by plane from Southern Governors Conference at Sea Island, Ga., and said "I feel like Gen. MacArthur. I feel relieved." He said state authority would have settled the city's integration problem "without violence" it the president had left the "law and order to us."

Eisenhower Speech

WASHINGTON--In a nationwide television and radio broadcast, President Eisenhower Tuesday night said he hurried federal troops to Little rock because "mob rule" there menaced the safety of the United States and the free world. He declared that "our enemies" abroad are gloating over the school integration riots in Little Rock and using it to misrepresent the United States. "Mob rule cannot be allowed to over-ride the decision of the courts," he said, and then pledged "if resistance to the federal court orders cease at once, the further presence of federal troops will be unnecessary..."

Eisenhower added that "under the leadership of demagogic extremists, disorderly mobs have deliberately prevented the carrying out of proper orders from a federal court." (The federal court orders he referred to were those of Judge Ronald Davies.)

However, the added that "Local authorities have not eliminated that violent opposition and, under the law, I yesterday issued a proclamation calling upon the mob to disperse."

Governor's Suggestion

SEA ISLAND, GA.--Gov. Luther P. Hodges of North Carolina proposed that Southern Governors Conference suggest to President Eisenhower that maintenance of law and order in Arkansas is primary responsibility of Gov. Orval Faubus. Gov. Frank clement of Tennessee proposed a committee of seven governors meet with Eisenhower to seek solution to integration problems which would avoid use of federal troops.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1957; belongsinchat; history; notnews; oldnews
So much in this article applies to President Trump sending troops to the border. Just thought some of you might want to read up on ‘options’ for lawlessness on the border.
1 posted on 04/04/2018 7:18:41 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

According to liberals today the children should pay a fee to the troops in order to cover the costs of the troublemakers make the situation dangerous.


2 posted on 04/04/2018 7:22:56 PM PDT by jarwulf
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And liberals never mention, that Eisenhower, a Republican president, took this action. Liberals who revere the Democrats as being the party which pushed civil rights issues, never acknowledge the actions of Republicans, as Republicans, when they castigate the GOP as the party of racism and all that.


3 posted on 04/04/2018 7:23:46 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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DJT should do it to thumb his nose at moonbeam.


4 posted on 04/04/2018 7:26:04 PM PDT by Salvavida
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I have no doubt Trump has been planning this for months. Since Jan 2017 when he signed EO to build a wall.


5 posted on 04/04/2018 7:29:07 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They also have a very convenient amnesia regarding the fact that it was democrat governors blocking school desegregation.


6 posted on 04/04/2018 7:36:06 PM PDT by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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Eisenhower didn’t have 20,000 border patrol agents in Little Rock.


7 posted on 04/04/2018 7:41:18 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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“They also have a very convenient amnesia regarding the fact that it was democrat governors blocking school desegregation.”

No doubt about that.

It’s just another of may times that the Democrats were wrong and never more wrong then when the Democrats opposed Desegregation of our schools.

The GOP should be proud of Ike for standing up for American values in Little Rock.


8 posted on 04/04/2018 7:41:58 PM PDT by Blue House Sue
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The "Negroes" still vote for those who blocked them from going to school. The "Negro" has been kicked down the rung by the DNC replaced by illegals and Muslims .

The Democrats don't want the military to protect the border because they have no problem with an illegal raping Americans, stealing our money while colonizing our country as Americans slowly become second class citizens.

What I see and read every day doesn't shock me anymore. What will keep shocking me is total apathy and denial of what is going on by most Americans as government is the catalyst for America's slow death.

9 posted on 04/04/2018 7:43:16 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
liberals never mention, that Eisenhower, a Republican president, took this action. Liberals who revere the Democrats as being the party which pushed civil rights issues, never acknowledge the actions of Republicans, as Republicans, when they castigate the GOP as the party of racism and all that.

I visited the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, located where MLK was shot. They had a section which heralded the actions of Eisenhower and the National Guard.

In another area, they had a B&W TV playing a clip of Robert KKK Byrd being a racist, and referring to "nigras".

10 posted on 04/04/2018 7:48:12 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The Obama is about to hit the fan.)
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September 24, 1957 for those of you, like me, who are fanatics about the dates of the big days.


11 posted on 04/04/2018 8:09:04 PM PDT by blu (Save us the time of explaining the links...read the article...unless you're Lazamatz.)
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Ike had to federalize the Arkansas National Guard to keep the Democrat governor from using it to enforce segregation. He used Federal troops from Fort Campbell to guard the high school because he knew that he could not trust the Arkansas Guard.


12 posted on 04/04/2018 8:17:38 PM PDT by iowamark
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Ike started the modern civil rights movement. Then JFK and LBJ took the credit with the support of Jackie-Os media.


13 posted on 04/04/2018 8:28:30 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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I realize that Ike had good intentions but I don’t think the president should be able to federalize ANY state national guard. That’s federal overreach if you ask me. I think the Feds need to know what it feels like to have people disobeying you and being powerless to stop it. Just so we can stick it to them. I realize this would allow blue states to run wild but I’d rather have that than centralized power.


14 posted on 04/04/2018 8:34:17 PM PDT by Mafe
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