If it had not been for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, I do not believe that much would have been accomplished in the eyes of civil rights activists. President Eisenhower, not the government, was the facilitator of some of the largest civil rights legislation passed in his time, in over eighty years, although, all of the branches played large roles in helping pass these bills. Some of the good actions taken towards civil rights included the full desegregation of the District of Columbia, which in turn created a role model for the rest of America. Eisenhower created a committee to reduce racial discrimination in federal positions. The Civil Rights Commission, made by Eisenhower, created a system of registrars and referees to handle patterned racial discriminations in voting and with this, allowed earlier denied voters to vote in another state and for the Commission to prosecute those who discriminated against those wishing to vote who were legally able to. Eisenhower appointed five justices to the Supreme Court; none of which were segregationists or southerners, which directly helped the civil rights movement. One of Eisenhower's last bills passed stated it “a crime to obstruct rights or duties under federal court order by force or threat of force.” Luckily, there were not as many bad events as there were good. One of the bad mistakes that Eisenhower made was not addressing key, black, civil rights leaders, such as Martin Luther King and the assistant director of the NAACP; this lead to unrest and annoyance directed towards the president because he had been addressing white leaders involved in civil rights. One of the worst events under government jurisdiction was the outbreak of civil unrest in Little Rock, Arkansas over the integration of a few black students into Central High School; this included: communist remarks towards the soldiers protecting the black children, beating of an African American photographer/reporter, and sland