In the sultry spring heat of the Delta flatlands, an old man in a dark, pinstriped suit climbed the steps of a white-columned courthouse to shake hands and ask for votes. “Who’s that?” asked a chunky ...

One more chapter of the 1957 Central High School story came to a close this month in California. Bonnie Lou Faubus Salcido, Orval Faubus’ youngest sister, died May 9 in Fresno. She was 93. Salcido was ...

I came to work for the Arkansas Democrat as a sportswriter in 1981. I grew up in Arkadelphia and stayed there to attend ...

2009-09-20T15:34:40-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/9a9/288553-m.jpgArkansas Governor Orval Faubus talked to Mike Wallace from the governor’s mansion in Little ...

Speaking again today of history with a racial element: Ernest Dumas looks back to 1963. The nation was roiling from the civil rights movement and an Arkansas governor, Orval Faubus, was nurturing his ...

This year marks the 65th anniversary of the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School. On Sept. 4, 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus used rifle-toting Arkansas National Guardsmen to prevent nine ...

A 1960 Chevrolet Impala convertible that may have belonged to Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus sold Friday on eBay for $26,600. The buyer wants complete privacy, said Chris Morris of Fruita, Colo., who sold ...

WE CALLED ALL of them “segs” back then, of course, Orval Faubus and all the rest of them, because in the South in the 1950s and ’60s things were a bit more black or white, a bit more urgent. It wasn’t ...

Federal Judge Ronald Davies glanced at his case file, routinely called up the next item of business: “Civil Case No. 3113 On A Motion For Preliminary Injunction.” But Case 3113 was far from routine; ...

Arkansas’ Democratic Representative Dale Alford is an ophthalmologist—and he knows how to interpret political eye-charts. Alford’s Fifth District and Democrat Wilbur Mills’s neighboring Second have ...