Executive Order 10730: Little Rock Desegregation - Milestone Documents

Executive Order 10730: Little Rock Desegregation

( 1957 )

Glossary

  • assemblages gatherings of people
  • cease and desist a legal term meaning “to stop an activity and not to engage in it in thefuture”
  • conspiracies a group of persons that join together for illegal purposes
  • forthwith right now; immediately
  • impracticable impossible to effect or do
  • obstruction of justice the crime of interfering with the work of law officers or legalauthorities
  • United States Code a compilation of federal law arranged by subject
  • whereas in view of the fact that; considering that
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Executive Order 10730 (National Archives and Records Administration)

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