Word: faubusing
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...child of a white woman whose false accusation of rape had caused his brother to be lynched. Bliss, though lovingly nurtured by his stepfather, eventually runs away in search of his lost mother and later transforms himself into Senator Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting politician the equal of Orville Faubus and Bull Connor combined...
...Governor Faubus, why don't you talk about your anxieties?" the mediators might have asked in the soft tones prescribed by the experts at "Conflict Management...
...then took to the stage with a rousing performance of "Take The 'A' Train," replete with mean brass and take-no-prisoners attitude. The band played six more tunes, including two more in the Ellington/Strayhorn vein, "Star-Crossed Lovers" and "Cottontail," Wardell Gray's "Twisted," Charles Mingus' "Fables of Faubus" and two premieres...
Arkansas made civil rights history in 1957 when Governor Orval Faubus resisted integration, using the National Guard to defend segregation, at Little Rock's Central High School. A poor state, with the third-lowest median income in the U.S., the "Land of Opportunity" has nevertheless produced its share of big-money entrepreneurs--like Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and chicken magnate Don Tyson--and President Bill Clinton. Despite the stature of a Democratic native son in the White House, the past two elections have seen a rise in Republican turnout here, and the G.O.P. is pulling out all the stops...
...will be disgraced if the Confederate flag flies over the Summer Games in Atlanta. Every decent American should be outraged that the Confederate flag will be displayed to the world, announcing a rejection of all that is upright and noble. Traitors, miscreants and goons from Jefferson Davis to Orville Faubus will be laughing in their graves...