The eye of Sauron descends on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, eventually, Brown v. Board of Education.

In September 1957, Arkansas governor Orval Faubus ordered troops from the state National Guard to surround Central High School in Little Rock to prevent nine African American students from enrolling.

The governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, had promised in the 1957 election to stop desegregation. During the summer of 1957, he called for a delay to desegregation. The first year at Central High ...