The South was led down the blind alley of blind resistance by Arkansas’ Governor Orval Faubus in September 1957, when he spurned both federal law and the sober advice of fellow citizens in his ...

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 ...

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 ...