Word: faubusing
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...stump below his shirtsleeve, swung wildly at one Negro. Another Negro (a onetime U.S. marine) decided not to run, ambled with terrifying dignity through a gauntlet of blows, kicks and curses. A cop stood on a car bumper to get a better view. Other cops moved toward the fighting. Faubus Henchman James Karam cried angrily, "The nigger started it!" A huge man came up behind Karam and said: "Get five or six boys, and get them over there where the nigger kids came in last time." State Athletic Commissioner Karam led five bullyboys to the other end of the school...
...away at sunny Sea Island, having kept in telephone touch, Orval Faubus proclaimed his triumph: "The trouble in Little Rock vindicates my good judgment." But the grin was soon wiped off his face by the dramatic rush of events in Washington and Newport...
...Will Have to Sign It." President Eisenhower had resisted all public and private cries for drastic action, had worked determinedly to keep Little Rock's trouble where it belonged: in the courtroom instead of the street. But his personal conference with Orval Faubus in Newport (TIME, Sept. 23) heightened his growing suspicion that he might have to move, however reluctantly, into the Little Rock situation. "If I do," he told an associate, "you can bet one thing. It will be quick, hard and decisive." Preparing against the day, Attorney General Herbert Brownell drafted a proclamation ordering compliance with...
...Dwight Eisenhower, the issue was not integration v. segregation; it was the integrity of the U.S. Government and its judicial decisions. Orval Faubus had left him no choice. Said he to Brownell: "I want you to send up that proclamation. It looks like I will have to sign it, but I want "to read it again." That evening, on the sun porch of his living quarters, President Eisenhower signed the proclamation commanding all persons obstructing justice in Little Rock "to cease and desist therefrom and to disperse forthwith...
Monument to Demagoguery. Orval Faubus, meanwhile, had flown back from Sea Island. Arriving in Little Rock, Faubus joked feebly: "I feel like MacArthur. I've been relieved of my job." But Orval Faubus had no intention of fading away. He holed up in his executive mansion and began working on a national television speech...