Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Wherever Federal Funds are expended ..., I do not see how any American can justify ... a discrimination in the expenditure of those funds"



Dwight David Eisenhower (commonly referred to as Ike) is the 34th president of the United States of America.

Desegregation
Truman desegregated the military in 1948. President Eisenhower also applied this to the U.S. government to decrease conflict.

The administration framed racial discrimination as a national security issue. Eisenhower made Washington D.C. a model of integration of schools.

In Little Rock, Arkansas, Eisenhower sent National Guards to protect 9 African-Americans entry into a "White-school". The school's official name in Little Rock Central High School. The nine children getting into the school had an effect of public awareness because it caught the attention of the media, the assistance of the government from the Northern division, and the decrease of credibility from Arkansas' actions.

Legislation
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 is a bill to ensure that African-Americans could exercise the right to vote.

President Eisenhower proposed the Act and signed it into law. He also signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to punish people who stop other people from registering to vote.

Sources Cited
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower

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