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...... The first important test of this Supreme Court-ordered desegregation law happened in Little Rock, Arkansas in September of 1957 when the school board of that city announced that it would admit Negroes into the all-white Central High School. When the school opened on September 3, the governor of Arkansas sent the National Guard to the school and prevented Negro students from entering the building, but on September 24, Eisenhower ordered federal troops into Little Rock and on the next day escorted the Negro students into the school (Powledge, 144)
In the meantime, in other areas of the country, African-Americans began a much broader attack upon discrimination and segregation, spurred on by the response of President Eisenhower to the events at Little Rock and the passing of the first major American civil rights bill. In December of 1955, Rosa Parks, a lower middle-class, hard-working black woman, was ordered by a white bus driver in Montgomery, Alabama, to


give up her seat to a white man. When she refused, she was arrested and sent to jail. Black leaders in Montgomery were infuriated and organized a boycott of the buses, and for almost a year, almost all African-Americans in Montgomery refused to

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