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Article: Orval Faubus Dies; Ex-Ark. Governor Resisted Integration
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 14, 1994
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CONWAY, Ark. Former Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus, 84, whose
defiance of an order to desegregate Little Rock's Central High School
forced President Dwight D. Eisenhower to dispatch federal troops,
died today.
Mr. Faubus died shortly after 9 a.m. at his home. A cause of
death was not disclosed, but he had spinal cancer.
Mr. Faubus rose from the backwoods poverty of an Ozark Mountain
hamlet named Greasy Creek to the state's highest office.
On Sept. 2, 1957, he ordered the National Guard to prevent black
students from entering Central High despite a federal court order.
Nine blacks were turned away the next day.
To the last, Mr. Faubus insisted he acted only to avoid the
violence he ...