PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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He encouraged people to boycott the Montgomery bus system in Alabama, which was a state beyond his jurisdiction.
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He criticized the policies of the Eisenhower Administration for condoning racism.
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He resisted the Supreme Court’s Brown decision to desegregate, which forced President Eisenhower to send federal troops.
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He tried to alter the Arkansas legal system to prevent civil rights demonstrations from occurring in the state.
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus’s actions in the Little Rock crisis provoke a political conflict between state and federal governments? He resisted the Supreme Court’s Brown decision to desegregate, which forced President Eisenhower to send federal troops. Why was the civil rights act of 1957 significant?
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1957 he defied a federal court order that called for the end of racial segregation in schools and ordered the Arkansas National Guard to “prevent violence” by blocking the access of nine black students to Little Rock Central High School. His action was countered by Pres. Dwight D.
Detailed explanation-3: -When Governor Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to surround Central High School to keep the nine students from entering the school, President Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock to insure the safety of the “Little Rock Nine” and that the rulings of the Supreme Court were upheld.
Detailed explanation-4: -Faubus’s name became internationally known during the Little Rock Crisis of 1957, when he used the Arkansas National Guard to stop African Americans from attending Little Rock Central High School as part of federally ordered racial desegregation.
Detailed explanation-5: -Explanation: Orval Faubus refused the right to go to Little Rock High School to four African American students in 1957 thus violating the 1954 Brown versus Board of Education which had made segregation in schools illegal.