Eisenhower Administrations - Domestic Issues
Domestic Issues
The civil rights revolution began with the Supreme Court's decision in the Brown case (1954) and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955), and intensified with the standoff over desegregating schools in Little Rock, Arkansas (1957). Eisenhower, despite his conservative rhetoric, had no intention of permitting the blatant racial injustice of segregation to continue, and he did much to affirm the central place of the federal government in U.S. domestic life that had begun under Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His government maintained and extended most New Deal programs, including the controversial Social Security program, and showed itself willing to manipulate the currency and interest rates to assure favorable economic trends.
The 1950s was an era of sustained economic growth and entrepreneurial daring, now backed by government initiatives. Eisenhower authorized the building of the St. Lawrence Seaway linking the...
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