Word: faubus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been wondering if Faubus' next proposal will be segregated cemeteries for the nation's war dead...
WILLIAM M. JOHNSON Chicago Sir: When some day Governor Faubus stands before a tribunal to be adjudged for his disgusting actions, I hope the presiding judge is of the caliber of London's stern but humanistic Mr. Justice Salmon...
Religion & Racism Sir' In alleging that Arkansas' Presbyterian ministers advocate the practice of brother hood as a consequence of having been "brain washed by left-wingers and Communists" [TIME, Sept. 29], Governor Faubus pays the Communists an unnecessary and unmerited compliment. The Communists do seem to know more about brotherhood than Faubus does, so he could, with profit, go to school with them. But the idea of the brotherhood of all men derives rather from certain Old! Testament writers, the Stoic philosophers, or Jesus Christ of Nazareth...
...Washington National Chairman Butler, already worried over the Orval Faubus effect on northern Negro voters, quickly supported Gravel for his "integrity, candor and intelligence," snapped that the National Committee, which rules on its own membership, will keep Gravel in office until the 1960 convention. Louisiana's U.S. Senator Russell Long, in turn, noted pointedly that the State Committee decides who shall be called a Democrat on the ballot-a strong suggestion that Louisiana might turn thumbs down on the presidential and vice presidential candidates if the rebels do not get their...
...effort to make him directly responsible for defying court orders. ¶In Little Rock deputy U.S. marshals fanned through the city to serve school officials and teachers with copies of a restraining order issued by two judges of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals against a pet Orval Faubus plan: turning the schools over to a private school corporation for segregated operation. Unfazed, Governor Faubus, who had always pretended that he sought only an integration delay to let things quiet down, now told a Little Rock reporter: "I will never open the public schools as integrated institutions." It thus appeared...