Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the dawn of integration day came, the Faubus fabric was even more tattered. His early-morning "March of the Mothers'' at Central High found only 15 curious bystanders-and one shaggy dog. A check of 21 Little Rock stores disclosed no run whatever on knives or pistols. And the only "caravans" converging on Little Rock were those of National Guard reinforcements called in by Orval Faubus...
...scene outside Central High School was anything but violent. After a classic tradition, high-school boys stood around ogling high-school girls-who were, in turn, ogling the young National Guardsmen. A handful of women began singing Dixie, faded dismally out before finishing. At top count, about 400 people appeared and. as one Arkansan told newsmen, "Before you boys get the wrong idea, remember there's no.ooo Little Rock people that ain't here." The nine previously accepted Negro students did not show up; they had been asked by the stunned school board to stay at home until...
Fewer than 100 people (not counting reporters, pjipils and militiamen) were outside Central High when the test came. Most of the Negro children came in a group, accompanied by adults, and left quietly when told by a National Guardsman that "Governor Faubus has placed this school off limits to Negroes." But little Elizabeth Eckford, 15, stepped alone from a bus at the corner of 14th and Park Streets. In a neat cotton dress, bobby-sox and ballet slippers, she walked straight to the National Guard line on the sidewalk. The Guardsmen raised their rifles, keeping...
...week's end kids at Central High School, who were ready to accept integration until they were goaded by rabble-rousers, were getting tired of the foolishness. "We don't need troops here," said a Central sophomore. "They are supposed to keep the peace, but they push us around too much. If you want to stand on the sidewalk and look at somebody, the guards push us back." Cried a grey-haired woman: "Hey, kid, why don't you keep quiet?" Replied the boy: "Because I don't want to. It's a free country...
...Faubus' challenge by: 1) issuing a court order to Faubus to show cause why he should not be held in contempt for having obstructed the integration orders of U.S. courts; 2) issuing a court order to Faubus to stand down the Arkansas National Guard from the Little Rock Central High School; 3) citing Faubus for contempt. Beyond that, it would be open to the U.S. to withdraw recognition from the Arkansas guard as a part of the federal military establishment, implying a cutoff of the $5,500,000 annual federal subsidy and a recall of federal-issue uniforms, arms...