sent in federal troops
The court didn't say exactly when schools had to integrate.
Jimmy Carter sent his daughter, Amy, to public school at first. Later she transferred to a private school.
She was one of the Little Rock Nine who were used to integrate Central High School.
The War Powers Act requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of sending troops into a combat area. There are questions whether the Act is constitutional, and this has not been definitively answered by the Supreme Court.
President John.F.Kennedy
President Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock to force integration of Central High there.
He sent troops to protect the students as they entered the school. Apex
He sent in the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock
After the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Ed. that ordered that schools be desegregated "in all deliberate speed," attempts to integrate Little Rock High School was made. However the governor of AR sent troops to stop this integration. In turn, the President sent federal troops to enforce desegregation as he viewed the move by the AR Governor as a threat to the authority of the national government. Federal soldiers finally ended up forcing desegregation and because of the federal troops, the first black children started to go to Little Rock High School which was to that point a white-only school.
No, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent the National Guard to Arkansas in 1957 during the contentious battle over school desegregation in Little Rock, when nine black students tried to integrate Central High School.
federal troops were sent.
Troops are deployed overseas for a number of reasons. Some troops are sent into combat zones to try and perserve peace. Some troops are sent to allied countries to help with aid. Troops are also sent overseas to help allied troops with missions.
President John F. Kennedy sent 127 deputy U.S. Marshals to enforce the federal law that allowed James Meridith to become the first black to legally attend the University of Mississippi.
Madison
Well it is because crowds of angry protesters wouldn't allow the first African American students to attend school. Even though schools were beginning to integrate many people still preferred segregation. Plus the black race were still (as they still are but less severly) thought as the inferior race,