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...BUREN, ARK. (pop. 7,300), once-important frontier post, stagecoach stopover on Arkansas River in north-central Arkansas, corn, livestock, truck-crop center, home town of Humorist Bob Burns, few Negroes...
Thirteen Negro youngsters went back to Van Buren High School along with 600 whites in Van Buren's second year of court-ordered integration. They expected little if any trouble. Last year even Governor Faubus boasted in his progressive moments about how successful integration had been in other places than Little Rock Central High School. Arkansas communities integrated last year: Fort Smith. Fayetteville, Bentonville, Charleston, Hoxie, Ozark. Hot Springs, Van Buren. But this year the Negroes were welcomed back to Van Buren High by a band of 40 to 50 white boys, mostly duck-tailed types, jeering, catcalling, howling...
...letter seemed unusual and properly titillating, so Lovelorn Columnist Abigail Van Buren ran it routinely in her syndicated column. Dear Abby...
While Faubus was goofing off, the small town of Van Buren (home of Bob Burns) quietly integrated 24 Negro children into a junior high school of 645 white children. They have been going to school in peace and harmony now for two weeks...
Sure enough, the old Tippecanoe River veteran, General William Henry Harrison, and his fellow Whig, Vice Presidential Candidate John Tyler, defeated Democratic Incumbent Martin Van Buren in the presidential race that November. Exulted the Whigs: "As Maine goes, so goes the nation...