Word: faubuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bond that held most Southerners together. "We live in a federated system," said Virginia's courtly Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. in Richmond, "in which the Federal Government has no powers other than those delegated by the states." "It must be remembered," said Arkansas' rabblerousing Governor Orval Faubus in Little Rock, "that the Federal Government is the creature of the states . . We must either choose to defend our rights or else surrender...
Thirteen Negro youngsters went back to Van Buren High School along with 600 whites in Van Buren's second year of court-ordered integration. They expected little if any trouble. Last year even Governor Faubus boasted in his progressive moments about how successful integration had been in other places than Little Rock Central High School. Arkansas communities integrated last year: Fort Smith. Fayetteville, Bentonville, Charleston, Hoxie, Ozark. Hot Springs, Van Buren. But this year the Negroes were welcomed back to Van Buren High by a band of 40 to 50 white boys, mostly duck-tailed types, jeering, catcalling, howling...
...heady tune of applause and rebel yells, Arkansas' Governor Orval Eugene Faubus went before a joint session of the state legislature in the colonnaded capitol in Little Rock with the air of a man who was sure that things were going his way. He had called the legislators into special session to pass a set of carefully lawyered bills designed to grant him sweeping new powers-to close down schools threatened by mob violence or by federal troops sent to secure integration, to transfer state funds from any closed school to any new segregated private schools, to provide...
Completely ignoring such legal fleabites, Orval Faubus savored every moment. Said Arkansas' governor, running hard with President Eisenhower's fumbled press-conference ball: "If the President believes that the pace of integration should be slowed down until means can be worked out to accomplish it peacefully, then I am in agreement with that." Said Faubus in satisfied self-appraisal: "You know, I suppose 90% of the people in the North think I am the most rabid segregationist in the South. The fact is that I am one of the most moderate men on the subject...
Allowing as how he might not sign a bill moving Little Rock's Central High School opening back from Sept. 8 to Sept. 15, Faubus jockeyed against the Supreme Court's anticipated Sept. 11 ruling. If he could get the school open on Sept. 8, he would, by his lights, have accomplished at least one thing: three lily white days at Central High...