Pointing Fingers?: Massive Resistance and German Reactions to the Little Rock Crisis, 1957

Two days earlier, on Sep 25, 1957, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower had federalized the state's National Guard that had denied the Little Rock Nine entry to Central High School for nearly three weeks, and deployed the US Army's 101st Airborne Division to Arkansas's capital to dispers...

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Published inThe Southern quarterly Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 34 - 54
Main Author Brückmann, Rebecca
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hattiesburg The University of Southern Mississippi, College of Arts and Sciences 01.04.2021
Southern Quarterly
Subjects
African Americans
American culture
Civil rights
Demonstrations & protests
Litigation
Nazi era
Pointing
Racism
Rocks
Schools
Segregation
Supreme Court decisions
Violence
White supremacy
United States > US
Southern states
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Summary:Two days earlier, on Sep 25, 1957, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower had federalized the state's National Guard that had denied the Little Rock Nine entry to Central High School for nearly three weeks, and deployed the US Army's 101st Airborne Division to Arkansas's capital to disperse segregationist mobs and escort the African American students into school. The events made Little Rock the "epitome" of Massive Resistance, three years after the Supreme Court of the United States' Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas verdict that declared racial segregation in public schools as unconstitutional. Segregationist politicians as well as grassroots activists organized Massive Resistance as a counter-movement to the increasing political and judicial pressure that threatened the legal codification of segregation. These white supremacists rallied against the civil rights movement's progress, and they perceived the Brown ruling in particular as a fundamental attack on segregation.
ISSN:0038-4496
2377-2050