Eisenhower's Contribution To The Civil Rights Movement

The most monumental event that Cecil witnessed by far is when Eisenhower decided to help protect the black students while they were being integrated into the Little Rock Central High School. An extremely sensitive moment in history, and extremely crucial to the civil rights movement.For his entire life, Cecil was convinced that white people don’t care about black people like himself, because of the trauma he endured as a child. He helplessly listened to his mother’s screams when raped by their slave owner, and watched as his dad was gunned down by that same man.

The last thing he expected Eisenhower to do was to send order the national guard to let those students. He couldn’t believe it. The shock on his face was more than apparent. The
whole country was shocked when Eisenhower took it a step further and ordered those troops to escort the students into the school. It was astounding because of how impactful it was to racial relations in modern American society. A white man protected the lives of several black children during a time when barely any black people were treated with respect.

This case was solved only because of direct interference of the US president Eisenhower, who enforced federal courts to address this issue and promote desegregation of public education. Faubus’s decision was both racial and political as he wanted to save his authority in the face of the most conservative electorate of the state, who wouldn’t approve desegregation of the central high school of the state. Ethnic and heritage related prejudice had continued to reign over the minds of the majority; especially in the South, the most conservative part of the country, where such shameful practice as segregation was still taking place. South could not get used to the insane social changes that had begun after the events that unfolded on this day. They touched the most dangerously tedious part of the social culture. This is the public's mindset or their perspective, which will always seem to be stable by the underlying majority if they continue to be blinded by the smoke screen of blissful ignorance.

Real change can only start after a very particular period.
The American civil rights movement succeed in integrating society by breaking segregation in education and evolving legislature to not only prohibit but to demonize open racial discrimination and bigotry. If Eisenhower never did what he did, then I assure that ethnic relations today would be very different. We would have never have gotten this far if that man hadn't stepped up in spite of being a white man and them being black; If he hadn't done what no one thought a white man like himself would have ever done. Society today would not be the same, and I genuinely believe that the real Cecil knows that too.

The most monumental event that Cecil witnessed by far is when Eisenhower decided to help protect the black students while they were being integrated into the Little Rock Central High School. An extremely sensitive moment in history, and extremely crucial to the civil rights movement.For his entire life, Cecil was convinced that white people don’t care about black people like himself, because of the trauma he endured as a child. He helplessly listened to his mother’s screams when raped by their slave owner, and watched as his dad was gunned down by that same
man.

The last thing he expected Eisenhower to do was to send order the national guard to let those students. He couldn’t believe it. The shock on his face was more than apparent. The whole country was shocked when Eisenhower took it a step further and ordered those troops to escort the students into the school. It was astounding because of how impactful it was to racial relations in modern American society. A white man protected the lives of several black children during a time when barely any black people were treated with respect.

This case was solved only because of direct interference of the US president Eisenhower, who enforced federal courts to address this issue and promote desegregation of public education. Faubus’s decision was both racial and political as he wanted to save his authority in the face of the most conservative electorate of the state, who wouldn’t approve desegregation of the central high school of the state. Ethnic and heritage related prejudice had continued to reign over the minds of the majority; especially in the South, the most conservative part of the country, where such shameful practice as segregation was still taking place. South could not get used to the insane social changes that had begun after the events that unfolded on this day. They touched the most dangerously tedious part of the social culture. This is the public's mindset or their perspective, which will always seem to be stable by the underlying majority if they continue to be blinded by the smoke screen of blissful ignorance.

Real change can only start after a very particular period. The American civil rights movement succeed in integrating society by breaking segregation in education and evolving legislature to not only prohibit but to demonize open racial discrimination and bigotry. If Eisenhower never did what he did, then I assure that ethnic relations today would be very different. We would have never have gotten this far if that man hadn't stepped up in spite of being a white man and them being black; If he hadn't done what no one thought a white man like himself would have ever done. Society today would not be the same, and I genuinely believe that the real Cecil knows that too.