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Article: OBITUARY: Orval Faubus
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 17, 1994
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Orval Eugene Faubus, politician: born Greasy Creek, Arkansas 7
January 1910; Governor of Arkansas 1955-67; died Conway, Arkansas
14 December 1994.
Until the advent of Bill Clinton, Orval Faubus was the most
famous governor of Arkansas. Notorious, many would say, since what
made Faubus front-page news around the world in September 1957 was
his ordering the National Guard to stop nine African-American
teenagers entering Little Rock Central High School. Ironically,
Faubus was, by Southern standards, a moderate on the subject of
school integration.
The background to this event which shaped his political career
was the landmark US Supreme Court decision on 10 May 1954 in the
Brown case. By 9-0 ...