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Base your answers to question 39 on the interview below and on your knowledge of social studies.
...[Reporter Mike] WALLACE: All right, sir. A Federal District Court has already ruled that Little Rock [Arkansas] Central High School should be integrated. And the reasons for preventing integration now are anemic [weak]. In view of your promise to the President [Dwight D. Eisenhower], will you respect this decision and give your okay to integration beginning tomorrow morning?

...[Governor Orval] FAUBUS: I’ve previously given my okay to integration. The Guard was not called out to prevent integration, but to keep the peace and order of the community. And, of course, I disagree with your preliminary statement that we are in defiance of a Federal Court order, based upon the premise that the peace and good order of the community is paramount to all other issues. ...

— Mike Wallace interview with Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, September 15, 1957
The issue discussed in this interview grew out of an effort to enforce the Supreme Court decision in
A. Dred Scott v. Sanford
B. Plessy v. Ferguson
C. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
D. Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States


Sagot :

Answer: C. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Explanation:

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a very important Supreme Court case that stopped the practice of racial segregation in public schools by ruling the practice to be unconstitutional.

As a result, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) enrolled nine black students in a previously all-white school in Little Rock, Arkansas.

There was so much anger at this from the city's white population and the Governor, Faubus, brought in the National Guard to prevent the children from attending school under the guise of keeping the peace.