Governor orval faubus biography
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- Authoritative Name:
- Faubus, Orval Eugene,
- Biography:
- ORVAL EUGENE FAUBUS was born in Combs, Arkansas, on January 7, 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 to during World War II, with two years in the European Theater. He was decorated with the Combat Infantry Badge and the Bronze Star. After the war, Faubus served on the Arkansas State Highway Commission from to and as director of highways from to He was postmaster at Huntsville from to and from to Elected to the governorship in after a runoff, Governor Faubus initially pursued a liberal course in office but to combat his political opponents who were staunch segregationists, he adopted a hard-line civil-rights position. In , Governor Faubus gained national attention when he called out the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the integration o
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ORVAL EUGENE FAUBUS was born in Combs, Arkansas, on January 7, 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 to during World War II, with two years in the European Theater. He was decorated with the Combat Infantry Badge and the Bronze Star. After the war, Faubus served on the Arkansas State Highway Commission from to and as director of highways from to He was postmaster at Huntsville from to and from to Elected to the governorship in after a runoff, Governor Faubus initially pursued a frikostig course in office, but to combat his political opponents who were staunch segregationists, he adopted a hard-line civil-rights position. In , Governor Faubus gained national attention when he called out the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the integration of huvud High School in Little Rock, but he was eventually forced to withdraw the Gu
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Primary Sources
(1) Daisy Bates was president of the Arkansas NAACP. She wrote about the struggle to bring an end to school segregation in her book, The Long Shadow of Little Rock ().
Faubus' alleged reason for calling out the troops was that he had received information that caravans of automobiles filled with white supremacists were heading toward Little Rock from all over the state. He therefore declared Central High School off limits to Negroes. For some inexplicable reason he added that Horace Mann, a Negro high school, would be off limits to whites.
Then, from the chair of the highest office of the State of Arkansas, Governor Orval Eugene Faubus delivered the infamous words, "blood will run in the streets" if Negro pupils should attempt to enter Central High School.
In a half dozen ill-chosen words, Faubus made his contribution to the mass hysteria that was to grip the city of Little Rock for several months.
The citizens of Little Rock