Question

The governor of Arkansas justified his refusal to allow integration of Central High School in Little Rock by claiming that

Answer 1

A.) The Little Rock School Board had decided against integration.

Answer 2

He claimed he was acting to protect the public.

The Little Rock School was the center of a highly popular crisis in Little Rock - Arkansas. There was a group called Little Rock Nine that consisted of nine African Americans students who wanted to enter the school which was racially segregated.

After the US Supreme Court decision of calling that all laws that segregated schools were unconstitutional, the high school decided to make a plan to integrate African American students. Many segregationist councils threatened to block the entering of the black students. Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus decided then to deploy the Arkansas National Guard, and he justified his action by saying that if he didn’t call the national guard people would get hurt.