How Did Eisenhowers Enforce The Supreme Court Decision Brown V Board Of Education

The opening front had begun under the Eisenhower administration when the former President was called to enforce the Supreme Court Decision Brown V. Board of Education. The governor of Arkansas in 1957 decided to challenge the right of the court by preventing students from integrating the schools in Little Rock Arkansas, Eisenhower had been silent on the issue up to this point, could no longer remain so and decided to act. The president federalized the Arkansas national guard and enforced the Supreme Court decision. Eisenhower did not agree with the decision of the court but felt that his constitutional office required him to enforce the law regardless of his own views. A man named James Farmer started the Freedom Riders to defy segregation in interstate travel, this was a magnificent strategy for two reasons, one by going from state you created a
Conflicts arose at check point Charlie in Berlin and culminated with the Berlin Wall. Kennedy tried to put a political spin on these events by citing that it was the USSR’s weakness that they had to build a wall to keep their people in; however, his critics were calling for more Presidential action rather than rhetoric. Thus, entered James Meredith and air force veteran who was denied admission to Old Miss four times. Kennedy recognized that his incursions into southern politics further eroded his ability to govern and weakened his reelection chances within the south; therefore, like Solomon he tried to split the baby in half. Kennedy called in his attorney general for calls with Governor Ross Barnett, the three men reached an impasse as the President tried some combination of carrots and sticks to force the governor to comply with the law. The end result was that the Governor thumbed his nose at the President and forced him to use federal troops to enforce the