Word: faubusing
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...seven Good Government Committee candidates running for office on Little Rock's city-manager-type Board of Directors tried hard to keep Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus, and indeed the whole segregation issue, out of the election. They even went to Faubus and begged him not to interfere. But Orval Faubus, hoping for a vote he might claim as popular approval for his wild attempt to prevent integration at Little Rock's Central High School, gave no promises. In fact, the word soon went out that his aides were on the telephone, whipping up support for the seven...
...Faubus got little satisfaction out of last week's vote. Six of the seven Good Government candidates won, by margins ranging from 12 to 1,699. The heaviest Good Government votes came from the Negro districts-and from residential Pulaski Heights, where live Little Rock's leading citizens. (One Faubus victory: in Little Rock's changeover to a city-manager form of government. Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann, Faubus' foe in the battle of Central High, lost...
Hank Aaron of Milwaukee for Hall of Fame; Faubus of Arkansas for Hall of Shame...
Discussing the Little Rock dispute, Browne said President Eisenhower's position that Governor Faubus was a cause of the violence "has some merit." The Arkansas trouble, he added, was a case in which "renegade elements came in and caused the trouble with little resistance from the moderates...
...flew into Little Rock, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Kennedy, an undeclared but unabashed candidate for his party's presidential nomination in 1960, accepted an invitation to speak to Mississippi Young Democrats at Jackson, in the deepest of the Deep South. But ever since Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus kicked over the Democratic civil rights applecart, Kennedy's Southern friends have been begging him to back out. Their argument: anything Kennedy would say that was faintly conciliatory to the South would be used against him in the North, yet if he spoke the Northern view he would necessarily...