The National Conference of Editorial Writers, meeting in Little Rock on Sept. 19, heard speeches by Elizabeth Jacoway , who ... By casting Orval Faubus as the one-dimensional, ...

On Sept. 4, 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock.

A half-century ago, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus ordered troops from the Arkansas National Guard to Central High School because the Little Rock School Board had decided to allow nine black students ...

Antiques Roadshow will appraise Gov. Faubus’ 1957 Life magazine on Little Rock crisis Ex-governor’s magazine on ’57 crisis due TV appraisal May 12, 2024 at 7:25 a.m.

After a couple more failed attempts in September, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school for their first full day of classes on Sept. 25.

Gov. Orval Faubus, who attempted to stop school desegregation, displayed photos in September 1957, from Little Rock, Ark., printed in the New York Daily News, showing soldiers clamping down on ...

Orval Faubus moved to Little Rock—and (to him) the big time. A Scheme for Security. Elected governor on a fluke in 1954, re-elected last year, Orval Faubus was right where he wanted to be.

Two hundred strong, the mob marched westward with its massed flags along Little Rock's 14th Street toward Central High School, shouting, cursing, and singing to the tune of Dixie: "In ...

Despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in September 1958 that Little Rock’s desegregation plan must continue, Faubus ordered four Little Rock high schools closed as of 8 a.m. Sept. 15, pending the ...

On Sept. 4, 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock.

David Matthews holds up a copy of Life magazine from 1957 with a cover photo of federal troops in front of Little Rock Central High School and addressed to the late Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus (shown).