Like other U.S. presidents before and after him, Dwight D. Eisenhower was only proactive in instituting civil rights in a very limited way, such as ending segregation in the District of Columbia, including the federal government, and any segregation in the armed forces. He wished, nevertheless, to avoid antagonizing the white South and was reluctant to go along with the Supreme Court in ordering immediate desegregation.

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1950s civil rights movement, digital history, eisenhower and civil rights, president eisenhower

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