Little Rock Nine Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===101st Airborne escort=== [[Woodrow Wilson Mann]], the mayor of Little Rock, asked President Eisenhower to send federal troops to enforce integration and protect the nine students. On September 24, Eisenhower invoked the [[Insurrection Act of 1807]] to enable troops to perform domestic law enforcement. The president ordered the [[101st Airborne Division]] of the [[United States Army]] to Little Rock—initially without its Black soldiers at the request of the Department of Justice—and [[United States National Guard#Constitutional basis|federalized]] the entire 10,000-member Arkansas National Guard, taking it out of Faubus's control.<ref name="smith2012">{{cite book | title=Eisenhower in War and Peace | publisher=Random House | author=Smith, Jean Edward | year=2012 | isbn=978-0-679-64429-3 | pages=723}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page