How Did President Eisenhower Granted The Power To Survive The 1957 Crisis

Could you set yourself back in time to were people harass you, threatening you, steering on your heels till you bleed, trying to make you fail, just for being a certain race? Nine courageous students, the President, and fellow students shared their story on how they survived the 1957 crisis in Little Rock to make a difference. 1957-1958 Central High School School Year was one to remember. The Supreme court had declared the school granted the rights to integrate, so they found nine black students that volunteered to fulfil the rights, later to make history. Although some might argue President Eisenhower had the most power during the 1957 Little Rock Central High integration crisis, young people proved they had just as much power to make change.

“Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts...As you know, the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that separate public education facility for the races are inherently unequal and therefore compulsory school segregation laws are unconstitutional…” In these quotes from An Address to the Nation, it explains that President Eisenhower knows that he could overcome the mobs and harassment if he put up some enforcement, showing not to mess with him by the decision of the courts. That all races have equal rights to better education. President Eisenhower realizes that the public schools were very unfair and the white schools had everything better, so the blacks should have the same opportunities. So if he had to get the courts involved to get things equal, he would “President Dwight Eisenhower, calling the rioting “disgraceful,” ordered 1,200 members of the 101st Airborne Division to protect the children, and he placed the Arkansas National Guard under federal orders.”.The quote from This Was a Gold Ring states that he had to order in the 101st Airborne Division to support the nine. He explains how disappointing he is in the students that they are acting so harsh to these people that he needs to send in that much enforcement to get them to

President Eisenhower protected the rights that were granted by the courts, the Little Rock Nine powered through all of challenges that they faced, and young people expressed positive and negative power among everyone. In my opinion, I think that young people had the most power during the 1957 crisis. They showed to have so much patriotism for what they believed in that many things had to later occur. First, the president had to send in troops. Having a Airborne Division being sent in takes a lot of power. The student created such a big mob for what they believed in had so much more power then the guards did for the nine. Then, they had to get the Supreme Court, the highest level of court, to interfere and make a law shows a lot about younger people having power. Getting a case up that high has to be very important and even though they lost, it still showed a lot of power to go through that much work to stop integration. Young people have done the most, even though most was negative power, the amount of power they had to stop integration was absurd. They went to so many levels of the law and even though people like the 55 student harassment mobs, to stepping on the back of the Nine’s heels till they bleed. All of the evidence that I gave supports that young people showed the most power in Little Rock in 1957. A lot of people had power during the 1957 Little Rock Central High integration