IKE dragged his feet on any effort at enforcement not because he thought Brown wrongly decided - as it was, both by claiming the constitution forbade compulsory segregation and by claiming it required compulsory integration - but because his sympathies were with the people who wanted segregation to continue.
He gets more credit than he deserves as an anti-segregationist, say, from the likes of Ann Coulter.
Newton thinks segregation a terrible moral injustice America had a duty to end.
He thinks Brown a dazzling moral victory.
But then, who today could write otherwise in a mainstream history and expect to keep his job?
Of course, if you wrote otherwise, yours could never be accepted as a mainstream history.
And no mainstream publisher would touch it.
Reading Eisenhower, The White House Years.
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