Martin Luther King Jr. 2

The act created the Civil Rights Commission, established the Civil Right Division of the Justice Department, and empowered the federal government to seek court injunctions against obstruction of voting rights.1” The same month, President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard to escort nine black students to Little Rock Central High, a previously all-white high school. A thousand paratroopers are sent to restore order, and troops remain on campus for an entire school year. …

…stance that synthesized faith and intellect. He probably heard echoes of his father’s fundamentalism in Reinhold Neibuhr’s neo-orthodoxy, which reaffirmed the limits of human perfectibility. Neibuhr provided an intellectual rationale for King’s recognition of the limitations of liberal theology. By the time he finished his course work, King had come to affirm some of the enduring values of his religious heritage, particularly conceptions of a divine goodness capable of acting in history.