Word: faubus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some kindly psychiatrist ought to hand Faubus a broom and start him sweeping back the ocean as the tide rises...
...most closely reasoned, carefully pinpointed opinion of the whole desegregation struggle, the Supreme Court last week struck at the massive Southern attempts to avoid compliance with its 1954 integration order. Specifically, the court aimed its opinion at Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus-but its effect would be felt in Virginia and in any other Southern state that had placed hopes for resistance in hedgerows of state laws...
Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus has announced the cancellation of his scheduled speech at a Ford Hall forum on Sunday, citing "pressing affairs of state" as the reason for his withdrawal...
...calculated it was. The picture was a fake, staged by a squat, bombastic Little Rock haberdasher named James ("Jimmy the Flash") Karam, the man who spurred on anti-Negro mobs for Governor Orval Faubus last fall (TIME, Oct. 7, 1957). Under Karam's direction, a taxicab deposited the Negroes, identified as James Howard and family, near the Hall High School at 8:40 on the morning of the balloting on the issue of segregated v. integrated schools...
Karam gave an order: "Get 'em over in front of the school." On hand were the United Press International's Charlie McCarty (TIME, Sept. 29), who had been tipped off about the story, and a photographer from the Faubus-fawning Arkansas Democrat. The two photographers needed only five minutes to get their pictures of the Negroes and their sign pleading for equality. "Let's get the hell out of here," barked Karam, and the Negroes hurried...