NATIONAL GUARD VS AFRICAN AMERICANS

 

National Guard troops played a role in the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and early 1960s. Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas called out the National Guard to bar black students from Little Rock Central High School in 1957 (later withdrawing them under pressure from President Eisenhower), but National Guard troops under federal control enforced desegregation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 and the University of Alabama in 1963, and protected marchers in Selma, Ala., in 1965. Later that decade, the Guard would revert to its traditional role of suppressing unrest: in the Watts section of Los Angeles in 1965, in Cleveland and Dayton, Ohio, in 1966, Detroit and Newark, N.J., in 1967 and nearly everywhere in the country after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. National Guard troops under federal control would also protected marchers and escorted integrated students. #civilrights Most segregation-related call-ups in 1957, 1962, 1963, 1963, and 1965 were to protect African-Americans. "Civil disturbances". national guard during race riots. #nationalguard However, deployments to "'contain' Black 'rioters'" started with the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles and continued in 1968 after MLK's assassination. Sources: (YOUTUBE) From the archives: Tulsa burning, What Started the 1967 Detroit Riots? | History, We haven't seen this since the 1992 LA riots, The U.S. Army Paratroopers Who Protected the Little Rock Nine, America - Newark Riots, The "Red Summer" of 1919 (ARTICLES) Etched in Memory, 5 times the national guard was activated, William Charles Brett, Fact check: National Guard was activated most often during the Civil Rights Era, Not Just Ferguson: National Guard Has a Long History With Civil Unrest https://www.patreon.com/theiconiumfou... https://www.whytheracecardisplayed.com/