您能想像武装军队挡在前面，阻止您去上学的情况吗？那就是1957年的秋季，发生在阿肯色州小岩城 (Little Rock) 的真实情景 。当时的州长法柏斯 (Governor Orval Faubus) 下令阿肯色州国民警卫队 (Arkansas National Guard) 阻止非裔美人进入中央中学 (Central High School) 就读。法柏斯州长公然反抗 1954年 时，最高法院针对「布朗控告堪萨斯州托匹卡教育当局」 (Brown vs. Topeka) 一案所做出之判决，该判决命令美国公立学校「依所需的从容速度」废除种族隔离制度；身为美国最高法律运行官员的艾森豪总统面临了一个困难的问题，他想要维护宪法及法律，但也想要避免情绪高涨的阿肯色州内，可能发生的流血冲突。您认为艾森豪做了什么事？


Can you imagine armed troops blocking you from going to school? That's what happened in Little Rock, Arkansas in the Fall of 1957, when Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School. Governor Faubus was openly defying a 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. Topeka, which ordered that U.S. public schools be desegregated "with all deliberate speed." President Dwight D. Eisenhower, as the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, was presented with a difficult problem. He wanted to uphold the Constitution and the laws, but also avoid a possible bloody confrontation in Arkansas, where emotions ran high. What do you think Eisenhower did?

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