All persons having business before the Honorable Supreme Court of United States landmark cases, cspan special history series produced in cooperation with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 759 we will hear arguments from number 18 quite often in many of her most famous decisions, are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate, very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Susan good evening and welcome to cspans history series, let marquesas. Tonight is number 10. You will hear about the 1962 tennessee reapportionment case. It was one that chief Justice Earl Warren called the most important of his tenure. This is the court that wrote brown versus board of education and we will learn wider the next 90 minutes. It began a re
movement, and certainly we profited dearly by experience and that s george washington on this presidents day. so our task is to answer a couple of questions. this discussion is about truman and eisenhower, and the questions on your book will say what prompted president truman to issue the 1948 executive order to desegregate the armed forces, declaring that there should be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services? and similarly, how did president eisenhower decide to call in the united states army to little rock and to federalize the arkansas national guard? now, we re going to answer those questions. the first thing to do is to put this in context, so i m going to ask our historians, both carol and david, to do that right now. and that is to say, as i look at this time period with truman and eisenhower, it struck me that two wars really frame the civil rights movement and the interaction and the response of the presidents. so, if you would,
good afternoon, everybody. good morning, late early day, whatever. i always think it s nice if you are marking the occasion, and we are, of president s day, to say a little bit of something about the presidents for whom this day is named. and that s george washington and abraham lincoln, i found something from george washington i thought was appropriate for our conversation. let me share it with you. we should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. and i think no better way to discuss this, because we got some useful lessons out of the presidency and the civil rights movement and certainly we profited dearly by experience and that s george washington on this presidents day. so our task is to answer a couple of questions. this discussion is about truman and eisenhower, and the questions on your book will say what prompted president truman to issue the 1948 executive order to desegregat
and that s george washington and abraham lincoln, i found something from george washington i thought was appropriate for our conversation. she was terrified of doing it. i talked with her before she died, and the courage that she took, with the support that she got from eleanor, the friendship that developed about that, the phone calls, the letters that forces, declaring that there should be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services? and similarly, how did president eisenhower decide to call in the united states army to little rock and to federalize the arkansas national guard? now, we re going to answer those questions. the first thing to do is to put this in context, so i m going to ask our historians, both carol and david, to do that right now. and that is to say, as i look at this time period with truman and eisenhower, it struck me that two wars really frame the civil rights movement and the interaction and the response of the presidents