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15. Dez. 1994 · Orval Eugene Faubus was born in a shack at Greasy Creek in northwest Arkansas. As a young man, he was a schoolteacher, then hopped freights as a hobo. During World War II, he served in the Army ...
17. Dez. 1994 · Orval Eugene Faubus, politician: born Greasy Creek, Arkansas 7 January 1910; Governor of Arkansas 1955-67; died Conway, Arkansas 14 December 1994.
15. Orval Faubus maintained a defiant, populist image, while he shifted toward a less confrontational stance with the federal government, particularly during the administrations of Presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson, with each of whom he remained cordial, and both of whom carried Arkansas.
ORVAL EUGENE FAUBUS was born in Combs, Arkansas, on January 7, 1910. He briefly attended Commonwealth College, the radical labor school at Mena, Arkansas. He worked as an itinerant farmer, a lumberjack and a schoolteacher before enlisting in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946 during World War II, with two years in the European […]
Orval Faubus was born on Jan. 7, 1910, in a two-room shack near Greasy Creek in the isolated and desperately poor hills of northwestern Arkansas. He was one of seven children of Sam Faubus, a farmer who worked the hillside soil to raise corn and light grain; Orval Faubus was reared in a world that owed little to the rhythms of the Deep South.
"Fables of Faubus" is a composition written by jazz double bassist and composer Charles Mingus. One of Mingus's most explicitly political works, [2] the song was written as a direct protest against Arkansas governor Orval Faubus , [3] who in 1957 sent out the National Guard to prevent the racial integration of Little Rock Central High School by nine African American teenagers , in what became ...
Der Titel. Mit dem Stück setzte Charles Mingus Orval E. Faubus, Gouverneur von Arkansas, ein Denkmal. 1957 hatte Faubus versucht, die Rassenintegration in der Schule von Little Rock im Staate Arkansas mit Hilfe der Nationalgarde zu verhindern. Wer in der Musik Hinweise auf diese Thematik sucht, wird sie schwerlich finden, wie so oft bei Mingus ...
