Moreover, the victories of African Americans were seen by the southerners as an attack on their way of life, on their rights. Years of segregation, years of thing a certain way now the courts that their way of life (segregation) was not acceptable. In 1957, when 9 black children were admitted to a white school in Little Rock, Arkansas the white residents of protested violently. The Governor of Arkansas Orville Faubus facing re-election choose to support segregationist and order the Arkansas national guard to prevent 9 black children from entering the school. This action forced President Eisenhower to take action (did it so not seem weak and not out of some moral compass) and send the 101st airborne division to enforce the 1954 decision. President
