Orval Faubus ordered the state’s National Guard to block their entrance. A couple days later, a judge ordered the state to ...

Orval Faubus. Faubus claimed it was for the students’ own protection, according to History.com. One of the more iconic photos of the Little Rock Nine features Elizabeth Eckford that day ...

Ten years ago, in a major test of the Supreme Court’s educational desegregation rulings, Arkansas’ Governor Orval Faubus ordered out the National Guard to prevent Negro pupils from entering an ...

In September 1957, Arkansas governor Orval Faubus ordered troops from the state National Guard to surround Central High School in Little Rock to prevent nine African American students from enrolling.

The governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, had promised in the 1957 election to stop desegregation. During the summer of 1957, he called for a delay to desegregation. The first year at Central High ...

The Citizen was a progressive voice in the state’s southeast corner, speaking out during the Orval Faubus era in Arkansas. He continued to oppose the Faubus machine after being elected to the ...

S. mail went through. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 27--Last night Governor Faubus compared the calmness in Little Rock with the quiet in Paris during the occupation, and the stillness of Budapest today.