Word: faubusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fearless, Fabulous Faubus...
...Harlem last week, New York's Governor Averell Harriman was banking on Harry Truman in a desperate effort to get back some of the votes Harriman knew Orval Faubus was costing him. If Truman had been President, said Ave to the Harlem audience, he would have sent the paratroops to Little Rock in 24 hours rather than waiting three weeks as Republican Eisenhower did. "Is that right, Mr. President?" demanded Ave in one of those of-course lines. But Truman threw away the script, ducked behind the claim that he "wouldn't have had all this trouble." Said...
White Only. The segregationists' sun shone brightest last week on the porticoed facade of a hand-me-down structure built 50 years ago as a Methodist orphanage, later used as a graduate center for the University of Arkansas, now bought (by a wealthy Faubus backer, for $50,900) and relabeled: Senior High School-Little Rock Private School Corp. Newly titled School Superintendent W. C. Brashears (a former elementary school principal) announced a solid-sounding curriculum ("four years" of English, Arkansas and American history, applied mathematics, algebra, chemistry, physics, etc.), by week's end had registered 241 seniors...
Schlesinger doubted that Governor Faubus "would be foolish enough to head a Dixiecrat ticket" despite his landslide victory in the Arkansas primaries last summer...
Paul M. Butler, National Chairman in a Chicago debate with his G.O.P. opposite number, Meade Alcorn, who forced Northern Democrat Butler to talk about Southern Democrat Orval Faubus of Arkansas, said: "We will not tolerate that kind of an un-American attitude in a party that represents the American people...