Word: orval
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arriving on the court shortly after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that struck down racial segregation, Brennan joined the judicial march toward civil rights. When Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus tried to block the entry of nine black students to Little Rock's Central High School in 1957, Brennan shaped a unanimous decision that "no state legislator or executive or judicial officer can war against the Constitution without violating his undertaking to support...