Abstract

AbstractThe author, Leader to Leader’s editor‐in‐chief, reflects on how her father was a member of the 327th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army, and as such had an important role in US history. She notes that in 1957, “President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10730 sending my father’s regiment to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas to maintain order as the school was desegregated.” This Executive Order “placed the Arkansas National Guard under federal authority and sent 1,000 US Army troops to Little Rock to enforce the US Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v. the Board of Education that US State laws establishing segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.” She relates that her father “ … remembers feeling the volatility of the situation that did not ignite, he believes, because of the discipline and presence of the 101st.” These thoughts resonated with her as she later interviewed the retired Army General Dennis J. Reimer, who in the 1990s was Chief of Staff of the United States Army, for her forthcoming documentary about our journal’s founder, Frances Hesselbein.

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