Cities fear violence as militia groups threaten to shut down border crossings

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18. I Notice the articles do NOT mention the Role of the Mississippi National Guard

The Article said the Mississippi National Guard was called into Federal Service, but not what they did in Federal Service. They sat in their barracks. President Kennedy did that so that the Governor of Mississippi could not call them out on State Service. In Federal Service, no one had any faith in the Mississippi National Guard troops thus they sat in the barracks.

Now, after things calmed down, the Regular troops were withdrawn and the Mississippi National Guard took over their function of "guarding" the university so that no further riot occurred, but it was clear the member of the Mississippi National Guard were NOT neutral.

Today's National Guard, including the Mississippi National Guard is much more integrated and tolerate then the Mississippi National Guard of 1962 but we have to remember what the Mississippi National Guard was in 1962 to fully understand why Kennedy did what he did.