Word: faubuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LITTLE ROCK--Gov. Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas hurled new defiance at the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday, declaring he would never open public schools for racially mixed classes...
...Faubus Defiant...
...private corporation proceeded with plans to set up segregated schools for white high school pupils idled by Faubus' order closing four schools. But a plan for private instruction of 10,000 high school students in Norfolk, Va., fell through because the planning group failed to obtain services of a single public school teacher...
...perhaps the strongest bastion against destruction of the Southern public school system is the peculiar moderation of many politicians such as Faubus. It is the moderation of inertia and short-sightedness. Even as they failed to make the schools equal, in order to keep them separate, so they now will probably fail to follow their rhetoric to its logical consequences...
...Arkansas pattern of badly-planned illegal dodges. Indeed Faubusian opportunism may help retrieve the situation it brings about. Having gained the maximum public support a show of opposition can produce, few politicians would want to risk unpopularity by ending public education altogether. Liberals may well hope that Faubus misestimates the rigor of his idealism in likening himself to Ghandi...