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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.
The "Little Rock Nine," as the nine teens came to be known, were to be the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School. Three years earlier, following the Supreme Court ruling, the Little Rock school board pledged to voluntarily desegregate its schools. This idea was explosive for the community and, like much of the South, it was fraught with anger and bitterness.
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.
Greasy Creek, Arkansas, 7 Jan. 1910; d, Conway, Arkansas, 14 Dec. 1994) US; Governor of Arkansas 1957–67 The son of a poor farmer, who was a socialist, Faubus had little education but became a schoolteacher before becoming involved in politics during the Depression. War service in the army (where he rose to the rank of major) was followed ...
Orval E. Faubus was born January 7, 1910, at the community of Greasy Creek in Madison County, Arkansas. He was certified as a teacher in 1928 and taught ten terms in rural, one-room schools. During summers her worked as an itinerant fruit picker, sawmill laborer, timber worker, and during 1937 and 1938, as a lumberjack in Washington.
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.
