Word: faubus
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...point was an interview with Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus, who helpfully explained why whites oppose sit-in strikes. Faubus went on: "You see, there's been a higher incidence of venereal disease among Negroes than white people in this country. It's not a matter of color. A man has to indicate that he's a gentleman, that he is clean, and that you wouldn't catch anything from...
...issue, sober-minded, Minnesota-born Ronald Davies was virtually unknown until Aug. 26, 1957, when he reported to preside in Little Rock for a session of the Eastern District Court of Arkansas. There, in Civil Case 3113, without precedent to guide him, Davies issued the injunction forbidding Governor Orval Faubus and his National Guard officers from interfering with the integration of Little Rock's Central High School. President Eisenhower had to send in federal troops to back him up, but the injunction stuck...
...stood at the head of the opposing forces. In the state capital of Baton Rouge, segregationist Governor Jimmie Davis-a smudged, folk-singing carbon of Arkansas' Orval Faubus-guided his legislature through a stormy special session, signing into law a paroxysm of sweeping resolutions aimed at tearing apart the New Orleans school system and whooping up segregationist emotion. In New Orleans' federal courtroom, U.S. District Court Judge J. (for James) Skelly Wright, who had ordered the school integration, countered every new law with a restraining order. New Orleans-born Judge Wright, in an unprecedented display of judicial power...
...national authority it can keep the situation alive by refusing to grant funds. However, such action can only lead to a closing of the public schools and it is doubtful whether the people of the city would permit this to continue, any more than they have in Arkansas where Faubus has been forced to begin token integration...
...Arkansas' Winthrop Rockefeller, Nelson's younger brother, Bobo's former husband, and biggest wheel in the drive to bring industry to Arkansas, took to radio and TV to announce for Nixon-Lodge in an attempt to get a two-party system going in Orval Faubus' one-party state. ¶ Aging (87) David O. McKay, "Prophet, Seer and Revelator" as well as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sat side by side with Vice President Nixon (in the company of Mormon Apostle Ezra Taft Benson) in the church office in Salt Lake...