Karl Kae Knecht Cartoon

Description:	A man sits in an armchair, reading about the Little Rock Situation, in which the governor of Arkansas called out the Arkansas National Guard to prevent integration of Little Rocks Central High School; President Eisenhower then federalized the Arkansas National Guard and ordered them to make sure that the integration went ahead without violence, in accordance with the Supreme Courts ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education. Excerpts from the Constitution, newspaper articles, court decisions, and other documents relating to the situation float in the air around the man. Image Access WideTEK 25 Under Article 4, Section 4, the Constitution says: The United States shall guaranty to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion: and on application of the legislature or the executive...against domestic violence. Arkansas Gazette said----President justified...law and order broke down...Governor Faubus irresponsible action... Various Comments. The Little Rock Situation. U.S. and State Troops. The Southern Newspaper. East. West. North. When President Hoover called out federal troops to quell the Bonus-March of Veterans of World War I., in Washington D.C.--Dwight Eisenhower was an officer in those troops under General McArthur... by Drew Pearson. In South Carolina vs U.S.A., the Supreme Court ruled --This clause, article 4, section 4, expresses the full limit of national control over internal affairs of a state... Congress has written no law respecting the conduct of public education in the states: It was the sole duty of the governor--and legislature of Arkansas, to decide upon the speed and character of Arkansas integration. It was governors sole responsibility under the constitution of both the state and federal government, to prevent or suppress violence if it resulted.... When Governor Craig sent national guard troops to New Castle, Indiana, during violence at a strike there, he was faced with more dangerous and violent situation than that at Little Rick. But it never occurred to the president to send federal troops and federalize the Indiana National Guard to immobilize in that case. How the president conducts foreign affairs has not relationship to how states and people conduct their own affairs....Indianapolis Star. [in margins: A Great Deal Has Been Written And Will Be Written!! 9-28-1957. Evansville, Indiana, Courier.]
Origin:	2014
Created By:	Karl Kae Knecht
Source:	http://digital.evpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/karlknecht/id/3613
Collection:	Karl K. Knecht Collection
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Subjects:	Education National Affairs Evansville (Ind.) -- History -- Caricatures and cartoons United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons Caricatures and cartoons -- United States

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