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Under Eisenhower, the Civil Rights movement began its motions, seemingly from a void nothingness, as the south still had a stranglehold on the general society and was enforcing its racially motivated hatred’s.
Around this time, a great movement was also starting up - The NAACP, however Eisenhower did not play a role.

One of Eisenhower's greatest moves in the Racial debate was to nominate Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who would be the principle party in the decision to outlaw segregation in schools (1954).
Because of this move, the first black students where allowed to attend a normally segregated High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. This was indeed a great and inspirational step in the plight for civil rights.
The backlash was fierce, so Eisenhower had to send in a thousand men from the airborne divisions to keep the peace.

In 1956, Eisenhower, won a landslide victory, however, the southern states, from which he came, did not support him,...

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