s and Lesson Overview What: To explore and analyze competing views on race relations during the Civil Rights era as well as the role and power of the federal government using the specific event of the Little Rock Crisis. How: Examine and discuss primary documents in the form of letters written to President Dwight D. Eisenhower both for and against his actions regarding the Little Rock Crisis, in addition to background information on the event itself. Why: The decision handed down by Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas and the resulting events in Little Rock, Arkansas, were transforma