Today, in 1957, President Dwight Eisenhower deployed the 101st Airborne Division to enforced desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. Perhaps a tad overkill, but certainly understandable. (So let me get this straight…we had to dispatch elite combat troops to ensure that certain people could attend public schools? Just a few decades ago…)

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