Word: faubused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faubus version of crisis in Little Rock was open to immediate doubt. Arkansas does not have a record of racial violence: the state university at Fayetteville was quietly integrated in 1948; during the very week that Little Rock was supposed to explode, three other Arkansas communities-Ozark, Fort Smith and Van Buren-integrated without a murmur. Furthermore, bus integration is a statewide fact, and Little Rock's white and Negro citizens have become accustomed to their Negro policemen...
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...
...Faubus-fashioned crisis could be straightened...
...small-town North Dakota' newspaper editor, got his law at Georgetown University, and practiced in Grand Forks (pop. 32,500) until President Eisenhower appointed him to the bench in 1955. Davies took just six minutes to order the school board to go ahead with its plans despite Governor Faubus. Said he: "Integration must begin forthwith...
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...