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Article: Faubus a Symbol Of Nation's Fight Over Integration
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 18, 1994
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CONWAY, Ark. The body of former Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus, a
man who was born in backwoods poverty and had no more than a grade
school education, lay in state in the last week in the state Capitol
rotunda.
Scores of people, black and white, filed past.
Among them was Chuck Lang, who said he met Mr. Faubus in 1963
when he was selected as an Eagle Scout to give a speech at the
Capitol, and forgot his words in the middle of his address.
Mr. Faubus "came out to talk to me. He tracked me down and
said, `I forget speeches, too. You did a great job,' " Lang said.
"I just had to see him one more time."
Mr. Faubus, who battled President Dwight Eisenhower in an
unsuccessful attempt to ...