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Executive Order 10730 By President Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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EXECUTIVE ORDER 10730
By President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ending segregation in Little Rock's Central High School
Whereas on September 23, 1957, I issued Proclamation No. 3204 reading in
part as follows:
Whereas certain persons in the State of Arkansas, individually and in
unlawful assemblages, combinations, and conspiracies, have willfully
obstructed the enforcement of orders of the United States District Court for
the Eastern District of Arkansas with respect to matters relating to
enrollment and attendance at public schools, particularly at Central High
School, located in Little Rock School District, Little Rock, Arkansas; and
Whereas such willful obstruction of justice hinders the execution of the
laws of that State and of the United States, and makes it impracticable to
enforce such laws by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings; and
Whereas such obstructions of justice constitutes a denial of the equal
protection of the laws secured by the Constitution of the United States and
impedes the course of justice under those laws;
Now, therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States,
under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and
Statutes of the United States, including Chapter 15 of Title 10 of the
United States Code, particularly sections 332, 333 and 334 thereof, do
command all persons engaged in such obstruction of justice to cease and
desist therefrom, and to disperse forthwith, and
Whereas the command contained in that Proclamation has not been obeyed and
willful obstruction of enforcement of said court orders still exists and
threatens to continue:
Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution
and Statutes of the United States, including Chapter 15 of Title 10 of the
United States Code, particularly sections 332, 333 and 334 thereof, and
section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, it is hereby ordered as
follows:
SEC. 1. I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of Defense to order into
the active military service of the United States as he may deem appropriate
to carry out the purposes of this Order, any or all of the units of the
National Guard of the United States and of the Air National Guard of the
United States within the State of Arkansas to serve in the active military
service of the United States for an indefinite period and until relieved by
appropriate orders.
SEC. 2. The Secretary of Defense is authorized and directed to take all
appropriate steps to enforce any orders of the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Arkansas for the removal of obstruction of
justice in the State of Arkansas with respect to matters relating to
enrollment and attendance at public schools in the Little Rock School
District, Little Rock, Arkansas. In carrying out the provisions of this
section, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to use the units, and
members thereof, ordered into the active military service of the United
States pursuant to Section 1 of this Order.
SEC. 3. In furtherance of the enforcement of the aforementioned orders of
the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Arkansas, the
Secretary of Defense is authorized to use such of the armed forces of the
Untied States as he may deem necessary.
SEC. 4. The Secretary of Defense is authorized to delegate to the Secretary
of the Army or the Secretary of the Air Force, or both, any of the authority
conferred upon him by this Order.
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The U. S. Constitution
