Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on 17 May 1954 that school segregation was unconstitutional. In September 1957, President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation at bayonet point, in a domestic enforcement of the ‘American Creed’, that is increasingly played out over the world in the name of global human rights, democracy, and equality,