Eisenhower signed the first federal civil rights bill since Reconstruction. It was not a groundbreaking piece of legislation, but the symbolism was extremely important.
Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, when that state's governor defied Brown v. Board of Education and refused to integrate the high school.
Eisenhower was important and still is today ... "civil rights" was an important cause and now "civil rights" is just a term to mask modern day black racism towards everyone else.
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