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Article: Orval Faubus - Pillar Of Old South Never Apologized
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- Oakland Post
- Article date:
- December 21, 1994
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Bill Hughes
Oakland Post
12-21-1994
Orval Faubus - Piller Of Old South Never Apologized.
A man died the other day who, more than anyone else, was responsible for the discord and turmoil which ravaged the Southern region of the country when it came time to enforce the 1954 Brown desegregation decision in the Supreme Court of the United States.
It wasn't Alabama Governor George Wallace nor Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett who originally precipated the Dixieland struggle against racial integration and the law of the land. It wasn't until 1962 when Barnett tried to block the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi, and not until 1963 when Wallace "stood in the schoolhouse ...
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