Good morning.
Our Tuesday will be sunny and warm, with a high of seventy-seven.
On this day in 1957, Pres. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard, and sent federal soldiers of the 101st Airborne, to enforce court-ordered integration.
Under escort from the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, nine black students enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Three weeks earlier, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had surrounded the school with National Guard troops to prevent its federal court-ordered racial integration. After a tense standoff, President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent 1,000 army paratroopers to Little Rock to enforce the court order.
Google’s daily puzzle asks about a ruler’s crown: “What color was my crown before I united the “two lands” of Upper and Lower Egypt around 3000 BCE?”