Why Did President Dwight D

question 123

Multiple Choice

Why did President Dwight D.Eisenhower deploy federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957?

• A)There were massive race riots as a result of a federal court order to bus white children into African American neighborhoods for schooling.
• B)The governor of Arkansas mobilized the Arkansas National Guard to block the enforcement of a federal court order to integrate Little Rock Central High School.
• C)Ku Klux Klan members from Little Rock were making terrorist threats against President Eisenhower if the local school district tried to integrate.
• D)The local police refused to respond to calls from African American neighborhoods.

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