Question

what role did Arkansas governor Orval Faubus play in school desegregation?
A) he challenged the legal ruling in Sweatt vs. Painter
B) he called out the national guard to protect the Little Rock Nine from an angry white crowd
C) he defied the federal government and blocked black teenagers from attending Little Rock Central High School
D) he argued that black students should not attend schools with whites because "that's just not the way we do it in the South"

Answer 1

what u think about the answer here...?

Answer 2

i think it's B but i need another opinion just to be sure

Answer 3

not B ... choose between C and A...

Answer 4

A? i don't remember reading that he was against integration. that's why i leaned more to B but it might be A too.

Answer 5

what about C...?

Answer 6

like i said before, i don't remember reading that he was against having blacks in a white school. i remember that he spoke to a crowd that was against it to say that blacks are going to be able to go to white schools

Answer 7

have a look ... http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=102

Answer 8

i usually don't use wikipedia. my computer blocks it.

Answer 9

On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation of public schools was unconstitutional in the United States.[1] That ruling would focus the spotlight of national attention in the United States upon the Arkansas National Guard and the Integration of Central High School. The Arkansas National Guard was drawn into the conflict when Governor Orval Faubus ordered them to "Preserve the Peace" by turning away the black students who were attempting to integrate into Little Rock's Central High School. President Dwight D. Eisenhower reacted to this use of the Guard to foil the court-ordered integration by federalizing the entire Arkansas National Guard and using it to protect the nine black students integrating Central High School.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_National_Guard_and_the_integration_of_Central_High_School

Answer 10

its not wiki... its ency

Answer 11

"...Governor Orval Faubus ordered them to "Preserve the Peace" by turning away the black students who were attempting to integrate into Little Rock's Central High School."

Answer 12

i see now. ty. the website ency did work. sry, i read it as wiki for some reason. C was correct.

Answer 13

No problem. :)

Answer 14

pleasure...