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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once owned by Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus. Maybe. The car, which doesn't run and needs a lot of work, is being sold through an eBay auction that ends Friday. Bidding had reached $22,150 as of late ...

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 ...

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 ...

Orval Faubus' house in Huntsville, a gas station in Little Rock and a bridge near Morrilton are among 10 Arkansas properties that have been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The new ...

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; ...

In an Arkansas governed by a nervous demagogue. Little Rock’s moderate school board prepared to face the consequences of obeying the integration laws of the land. With canny suddenness, the board ...

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 ...