Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take any other judge in the state if I were in court and guilty.") Then on Aug. 22, 1957, the Fargo Forum carried a brief notice tucked away on an inside page: "U.S. District Judge Ronald N. Davies of Fargo will leave Saturday for Little Rock, Ark. to preside at a term of the Eastern District of the U.S. Court of Arkansas. He will replace the presiding judge...
That night, after the injunction had been issued, Faubus appeared on three Little Rock television stations. Inveighing against the "unwarranted action" of Judge Davies, Faubus denounced all his critics.t But he would nonetheless comply with the court order until its "certain reversal on appeal." Said Governor Orval Faubus: "I have issued orders that all units of the Arkansas National Guard stationed at the high schools in Little Rock be removed there as soon as this can be accomplished. They are now gone or are moving from the school grounds...
...they were. The last dozen or so of the 250 National Guardsmen who had moved in on Central High School and the executive mansion two weeks before pulled out quietly as Orval Faubus was speaking. That left the city of Little Rock free to go on about its business-if Orval Faubus, by manufacturing the myth of violence, had not in fact whipped up the reality...
...Arriving at the Southern Governors' Conference in Sea Island, Georgia, Faubus explained to newsmen that he had first called out the guard because 1) integrationists had planned to make a big showcase out of integration in Little Rock. and 2) segregationists, catching wind of the plan had threatened violence to stop it. t Including TIME, for its"colored, slanted and falsified reports" (see Publisher's Letter...
...Fargo on Aug. 16, 1955, then turned to well-wishers with one of the shortest induction speeches on record: "I hope that I will have the courage to meet and discharge the responsibilities of my office." Last week, plucked 870 miles from Fargo and set down in Little Rock by the impersonal workings of justice, Ronald Davies fulfilled his hopes...