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Why did President Dwight Eisenhower deploy federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957?


A) There were massive race riots as a result of a federal court order to bus white children into African American neighborhoods for schooling.
B) The governor of Arkansas mobilized the Arkansas National Guard to block the enforcement of a federal court order to integrate Little Rock Central High School.
C) Ku Klux Klan members from Little Rock were making terrorist threats against President Eisenhower if the local school district tried to integrate.
D) It was feared that communists had infiltrated the local government.
E) The local police refused to respond to calls from African American neighborhoods.

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