Orval Faubus. Faubus claimed it was for the students’ own protection, according to History.com. One of the more iconic photos of the Little Rock Nine features Elizabeth Eckford that day ...

LITTLE ROCK--Paratroopers from the Army's famed ... under Army control and took them from state control. Gov. Orval Faubus, until today civilian commander of the Guard, called up some of the ...

The Little Rock Nine attended Central High for one year before Gov. Orval Faubus (D) closed all of Little Rock’s high schools for a year to try to prevent desegregation. The nine students went ...

Orval Faubus, had promised in the 1957 election to stop desegregation. During the summer of 1957, he called for a delay to desegregation. The first year at Central High School, Little Rock ...

Arkansas’ Governor Orval Faubus ordered out the National Guard to prevent Negro pupils from entering an all-white Little Rock high school. Last week Little Rock’s school board unanimously ...

Thelma Mothershed Wair gained nationwide fame as a child, when she became a Little Rock Nine member ... 1958, when Arkansas ...