Fifty years ago today President Eisenhower mobilized troops to enforce the Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision ending racial segregation in schools. The immediate conflict was with then Governor Faubus of Arkansas who had ordered the National Guard to surround the Little Rock High School and prevent the entry of nine black students.
Eisenhower who knew something about leading armies and had an even bigger one that Faubus, sent the 101st Airborne.
The fight goes on.
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