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Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, talks to Wallace from the Governor's mansion in Little Rock during his standoff with the Federal Government over the integration of Little Rock Central High School. Faubus had called in the National Guard to bar the African-American students from the school and had met the day before this interview with President Eisenhower in an effort to resolve the conflict.
Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus removed the National Guard from the school only after a federal district court ordered him to do so on September 20. On September 24, President Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and ordered more than a thousand federal troops from the 101st Airborne to Little Rock.
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 ...
Biography: 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 Theater.
Department of History, North Carolina Wesleyan College. Rocky Mount, North Carolina 27801. vJn September 3, 1957, Arkansas Governor Orval E. Faubus focused the eyes of the world on a large yellow brick building in Little Rock. when he ringed Central High School with Arkansas National Guard. troops to prevent the entrance of nine Negro students.
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.
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.
