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Article: Ex-Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus Dies // Had Fought Integration Of Schools
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 15, 1994
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Former Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus, who
became a national symbol of opposition to school desegregation, died
Wednesday at his home in Conway, Ark. The ex-governor, who had heart
and stomach problems and prostate cancer, was 84.
Mr. Faubus became a national figure overnight on Sept. 2,
1957, when he called out the Arkansas National Guard to keep nine
black students from entering Little Rock's all-white Central High
School. That was three years after the Supreme Court ruled that
racially segregated public schools were unconstitutional.
The blacks were unable to enroll until President Eisenhower sent
1,000 paratroopers to Little Rock to enforce court orders.
"We ...