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Eisenhower and Civil Rights

Eisenhower and Civil Rights. Personally disagreed with segregation BUT thought it should end gradually as values changed Navy shipyards/veterans hospitals desegregated Refused to endorse B v . BoE. CRISIS in Little Rock. Melba Pattillo. The Civil Rights Movement and School Integration.

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Eisenhower and Civil Rights

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  1. Eisenhower and Civil Rights • Personally disagreed with segregation BUT thought it should end gradually as values changed • Navy shipyards/veterans hospitals desegregated • Refused to endorse B v. BoE

  2. CRISIS in Little Rock

  3. Melba Pattillo The Civil Rights Movement and School Integration Ruby Bridges

  4. What was going on at the time…. Brown II • "all deliberate speed” • In September 1957, the school board in Little Rock, Arkansas, won a court order to admit nine African American students to Central High, a school with 2,000 white students.

  5. Arkansas Governor Orville Fabus • Moderate? White supremacy • Faubusorder that his state's national guard unit block the admission of the nine African American students to Little Rock's Central High School in 1957. The nearly month-long confrontation ended when President Eisenhower sent in U.S. troops to protect the students.

  6. Faubus, using the armed forces of a state to oppose the authority of the federal government, was the first to challenge the Constitiution since the civil war. Instead of ending the crisis, Faubusleft the school to the mob where angry whites beat two African American reporters and broke many of the school’s windows.

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  8. What reasons did Melba PatilloBeals give for wanting to go to Central High School? • Why did white students oppose admitting her and other black students to the school? • Describe Beals's experiences on these three days: the first day she went with her mother to the school; the first time she was allowed inside the school; and the next time she went to school, with the 101st Airborne Division escort. • What was the long-term impact of Beals's experience at Central High School?

  9. Essay • Reflect on if you would be able to be as brave as Melba. Put yourself in her shoes and write a paragraph about if you could do what she did and what your feelings would be.

  10. Effects • Eisenhower sends troops to Little Rock • New Civil Rights Legislation- • There were poll taxes, literacy tests previously • 20% of African Americans were registered to vote • States had the power • Civil Rights Act of 1957- • Federal government found oversight– (voting of President, Vice President and Congress)

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