Eisenhower's Response to Little Rock Crisis: Federalized Guard, Sent Troops

When Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus and mobs blocked integration at Little Rock Central High (1957), President Eisenhower:

• Federalized the Arkansas National Guard (removing it from governor's control).
• Deployed 1,200 U.S. Army paratroopers (101st Airborne) to enforce desegregation and protect the "Little Rock Nine."

This decisive federal action upheld the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board ruling and the rule of law.