Orval Faubus

...reporting and editing the news that journalists' biases can filter in," he says. "Early in my career, I personally detested Gov. Orval Faubus," the segregationist governor of Arkansas, "but when I covered him, I treated him fairly."

In this article: Society of Professional Journalists, Arkansas, Democracy, Suicide, and Philadelphia Inquirer

...Day at Black Rock and The Defiant Ones, to name but two). And a cursory knowledge of history would indicate that George Wallace and Orval Faubus were Democrats, Barry Goldwater was very much a civil libertarian, and that the Kennedys were...

In this article: Mad Men, Don Draper, AMC, New York, Parochialism, Betty Draper, Ms. Magazine, and Bad Day at Black Rock

...dwelling on race, the constant dividing up by race. This was all done by "liberals," of course but, in a way, George Wallace, Orval Faubus, Lester Maddox, and all them ol' "segs" would have heartily approved. This was a big reason for my...

In this article: Contessa Brewer, Jesse Jackson, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Supreme Court, and Al Sharpton

...with orders to help the students enter, but to keep them out. Carlotta Walls LaNier sums up what followed: "Arkansas governor Orval Faubus and staunch segregationists throughout Little Rock resisted with all their might. In a show of federal...

In this article: Little Rock, Central High School, Orval E. Faubus, Little Rock Central High School, Bull dog, Tax, and Dunbar High School

He told one funny story involving former Arkansas athletic director John Barnhill. Broyles said Barnhill once told him Gov. Orval E. Faubus had given him the money to expand War Memorial Stadium. "We didn't have Freedom of...

In this article: Frank Broyles, Arkansas, Razorbacks, Southeastern Conference, Texas A&M, Alzheimer's disease, Texas A&M, Mississippi State, John Barnhill, and Little Rock

...two branches of government. He said in his memoir that he had had to put aside the residue of his Southern upbringing to fight Gov. Orval E. Faubus over the governor's opposition to integration of Little Rock schools at the beginning of the...

In this article: Supreme Court, Richard M. Nixon, George Parr, George Bush, House of Representatives, Little Rock, Justice Department, and Ronald Reagan

...Cooper v. Aaron, a 1958 Supreme Court case stemming from the Little Rock Nine. The case is about Arkansas Democratic Gov. Orval Faubus and his refusal to obey federal orders to integrate the state's schools. His defiance caused Republican...

In this article: Little Rock, Republican Party, John D. Dingell, Dwight Eisenhower, Arkansas, John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama

...peace treaty conference in San Francisco in the first live, coast-to-coast television broadcast. In 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus used Arkansas National Guardsmen to prevent nine black students from entering all-white Central High...

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Work has begun on a state park along the Mississippi River more than 40 years after Gov. Orval Faubus signed legislation to evaluate such a project. The 550-acre Mississippi River State Park will be in the St....

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...first recorded 50 years ago this month on Mingus Ah Um, was meant to be a condemnation of Arkansas governor Orval Faubus. In 1957 Faubus had ordered the state's National Guard to prevent the integration of Little Rock Central High School...

In this article: Charles Mingus, Fable, Louis Armstrong, Mingus Ah Um, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Little Rock, and Nat Hentoff