odations were constitutional. Not long after Brown was decided, on December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to move to the rear of a segregated public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This event set in motion a 380 day long black boycott of buses and stores which resulted in their integration, and the emergence of a new black leader, King, who founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1958. Although President Dwight Eisenhower was uncomfortable with the Brown decision, he sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas in September 24, 1957 to enforce the integration of Central High School which had been ordered by a federal court and which Governor Orval Faubus opposed.
In 1957, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (the '57 Act) which provided for a Civil Rights Commission to monitor violations of federally-guaranteed civil rights, including the right to vote in federal elections, and empowered a newly established Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to order injunctions or restra
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