Word: faubused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faubus...
Well, anyway, you will have to admit that Governor Faubus knows his Southerners...
...weapon: a battered copy of the Southern Manifesto. Gore's refusal to join 19 other Dixie Senators in this 1956 blast against civil rights made him a "traitor to the South," charged Cooper, who swore that his first official act would be to sign it.* Cheered by Orval Faubus' landslide just across the Mississippi, Cooper's rednecks promised to prove that only stout segregationists can now win primaries below the Mason-Dixon. But at vote-counting time in the as-good-as-elected Democratic primary late last week, Albert Gore was renominated with 60% of the total...
After the Faubus fright (TIME, Aug. 11), Northern editorialists happily hailed a big victory for moderation. In fact, it was more a personal victory for forthright Albert Gore than for moderation. Largely unnoted was the sobering point that the Governor's power, which made Arkansas' Faubus far more of a Southern hero than any Senator, was won by Buford Ellington, 50, former state commissioner of agriculture and campaign manager for Governor Frank Clement...
...Faubus' landslide raised points far more serious than politics. A Federal Court of Appeals is reviewing Federal Judge Harry J. Lemley's decision to delay for 2½ years integration at Little Rock Central High; if the delay is refused, it will take a brave Negro to claim his rights at school's opening. Most Arkansans also expect trouble in the seven other communities that have already begun integration. In seven Southern states-Alabama, Florida. Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia-there is no integration at all, and the newly emboldened anti-integration forces are waiting...