Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem was that Arkansas' Governor Orval Eugene Faubus had once more wrecked a responsible attempt to reestablish the rule of law in Little Rock and to restore the kind of peaceful climate in which his state might get back into step with the rest of the nation industrially, socially, politically, emotionally. This time Faubus had crossed up not only the President of the U.S. but four Southern governors who had worked tirelessly since the recent Southern Governors' Conference at Sea Island, Ga. to find an acceptable peace formula. One of these Southern governors, a Southern-born, Southern-reared...
...White House to keep their appointment. (Missing: Georgia's Faubus-like Governor Marvin Griffin, who backed out at the last minute.) Their historic mission was to try to arrange with the President terms for the withdrawal of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division from Little Rock. Specifically, they proposed that 1) Faubus make a formal declaration that he would now assume responsibility for law and order in Little Rock and also that he "would not obstruct" federal court orders to integrate Little Rock's Central High School; whereupon 2) the President should turn back the federalized...
...Little Rock Deadlock...
...LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. 10--The Central High School racial integration crisis subsided today into a silent deadlock...
...sipped his coffee, made a crinkly face like a rotting pear, and continued his monologue. "You take my country. There's two niggers for every white. That means when you talk about integrating, you're not talking about sending the niggers to the nice white school, like in Little Rock. You're talking about sending whites to a nigger school with nigger teachers. And we just won't go. Maybe in Baltimore, or Little Rock, but not down home...