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rights. historians have looked at his records in this area and have come to very different conclusions. when eisenhower assumed the presidency, the armed services had recently been integrated, but segregation still held firm in public schools. no civil rights act had been passed since 1875, and the power of the military had not been used to protect the interests of african-americans since the reconstruction period. by the end of his presidency, the brown versus board of education decision in the supreme court upended the notion of separate but equal education. federal troops had been...

roughnecks. and with the roughnecks, life. the dixie hotel and infamous brothel on crockett street, decades of gambling, prostitution and other crime thrived until a 1960 james commission crackdown. beaumont, texas. next weekend on c-span2 and 3. the first civil rights legislation since reconstruction was enacted while president dwight d. eisenhower was in the white house. and now some 50 years after ike left the oval office, thurgood marshall jr. was among those who gathered at the eisenhower presidential library to consider his civil rights legacy and the groundwork that preceded t...