Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grimly real: a segregationist mob had ruled Little Rock for an ugly moment in U.S. history. Now the face of the law was that of a young U.S. Army paratrooper in battle gear outside Central High School. Little Rock was a name known wherever men could read newspapers and listen to radios, a symbol to be distorted in Moscow, misinterpreted in New Delhi, painfully explained in London. A great issue had been joined between law and anarchy-and as always, it was the innocents, the moderates, who suffered most...
...Roosevelt McKeldin, were moderates. But the emotional turmoil of the South had forced Collins, Clement and Hodges toward the side of Demagogue Faubus, even though most of them privately blamed him for the trouble. In Washington, they hoped to find a way to get federal troops out of Little Rock...
...Inevitable Governor. It was small wonder that many of the ordinary citizens of Little Rock thought of their situation as a dream-a nightmare-in which they had played no part. But Presbyterian Ogden pointed up the meaning for ordinary citizens and would-be extremists alike. "This had to happen someplace in the South," said he. "It was inevitable that there was going to be a plan, worked out, approved and accepted, for gradual integration. It was inevitable that somewhere a governor, under pressure of extreme segregationists, was going to stop integration by calling out the National Guard...
...This may be looked back upon by future historians as the turning point-for good-of race relations in this country. If the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution can be made good in Little Rock, then it can be made good in Arkansas. If it can be made good in Arkansas, then eventually it can be made good throughout the South...
...reports arriving in his vacation office near Newport. The weeks of patient working toward peaceful solution were over; a mob, stirred by the governor of Arkansas, still stood in the way of nine Negro youngsters who, by court order, were entitled to join 2,000 whites at Little Rock Central High School. Two aides and a secretary watched silently as President Eisenhower, his decision made, picked up a pen and signed a historic document: it ordered Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson to use the armed forces of the U.S. to uphold the law of the land in Little Rock...