This year marks the 65th anniversary of the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School. On Sept. 4, 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus used rifle-toting Arkansas National Guardsmen to prevent nine ...
To the heady tune of applause and rebel yells, Arkansas’ Governor Orval Eugene Faubus went before a joint session of the state legislature in the colonnaded capitol in Little Rock with the air of a ...
AT GREERS FERRY: Orval Faubus speaks at the dedication of Greers Ferry Dam on Oct. 3, 1963. President Kennedy is second from left (next to Sen. John McClellan). Credit: Courtesy Butler Center for ...
Speaking again today of history with a racial element: Ernest Dumas looks back to 1963. The nation was roiling from the civil rights movement and an Arkansas governor, Orval Faubus, was nurturing his ...
On this date in 2003, Arkansas political cartoonist George Fisher died of an apparent heart attack at the drawing board in his Little Rock home. He had just completed two cartoons. The previous ...
Last fall we revisited one of the most important sites in America’s struggle over civil rights. Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is an impressive building where violence and bravery ...
“Mr. Faubus has baldly drawn the line between defiance of the law and orderly adjustment of our difficulties,” said the Arkansas Gazette two days before the Arkansas Democratic primary last week. “In ...
The year was 1970 and a hot campaign was being conducted by a group of Democrats trying to replace the incumbent Governor Winthrop Rockefeller. The group of Democrats included former Governor Orval ...
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