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...Rock's board of education, tried hard to make clear the board's plea for a postponement of integration at Little Rock's Central High School. The board, Butler said, was "placed between the millstones [of] two sovereignties"-the Federal Government and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus. If law and order had broken down in Little Rock, Butler submitted, that was not the fault of the school board, which had labored to make integration work. The board's dilemma was similar to that of a drayman, he explained, who was ordered to go from "Point...
Make It Clear. It was precisely Orval Faubus' deliberate burning of the bridges between federal justice and enforcement that brought the N.A.A.C.P. and Little Rock's school board back before the high court last week. And the question before the court was whether bridge burning and violence were lawful excuses for slowing down the crawl toward integration...
...Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, was seated at the head of a long table in the conference room next to his office. He was presiding at a routine public meeting of state-election commissioners. A beefy, cigar-chewing reporter sidled up to the Governor, whispered in his ear the news of the Supreme Court's decision. Faubus listened impassively, nodded and said nothing. Then he leaned toward State Attorney General Bruce Bennett, sitting at his side, and the two whispered, gestured, broke out laughing...
...late afternoon Faubus was ready to announce his plans. At 4:25 an aide left the Governor's office, filed with the secretary of state a sheaf of anti-integration laws enacted by the legislature at the Governor's behest; Orval Faubus had been keeping them on his desk for two weeks. Now, freshly signed, they had the power of law. Then he called in the press and read his announcement in a flat, tense voice: "Acting under the powers and responsibilities imposed upon me by these laws, I have ordered closed the senior high schools of Little...
...Faubus knew that he was bound to reap the growing outrage of parents and students who wanted their schools open-integrated or no. He knew too that his act defied a federal court order prohibiting him from obstructing Central High School's integration progress. Suddenly, out of nowhere, came an admitted Little Rock segregationist named Gertie Garrett to file suit against the Governor in Chaneery Court. Ostensible purpose: to test the constitutionality of the school-closing law in state courts. Though the Governor's office denied any complicity, it seemed likely that the suit was designed...