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 in | The Southern quarterly Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 34 - 54 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Hattiesburg
The University of Southern Mississippi, College of Arts and Sciences
01.04.2021
Southern Quarterly |
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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. |
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ISSN: | 0038-4496 2377-2050 |