Reminiscences of Orval Eugene Faubus : oral history, 1971.

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Reminiscences of Orval Eugene Faubus : oral history, 1971.

Detailed history of the integration of Little Rock High School; integration of institutions of higher education in the South; National Guard; meeting with President Eisenhower in Newport; federal troops; Arkansas elections of 1958; attitude of the press toward Faubus and the school crisis. Impressions of Dwight Eisenhower, Virgil Blossom, Brooks Hays, Dale Alford.

Transcript: 135 leaves.Tape: 2 reels.

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Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994

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34th governor of Arkansas. Faubus was born in the Ozark Mountain community of Greasy Creek; taught school in rural communities (1928...1939); worked as an itinerant farm laborer and lumberjack (1931...1935); briefly attended Commonweath College, the radical labor school at Mena (Polk County) Arkansas (1935); was elected to two terms as Madison County Circuit Clerk and Recorder; served in the U.S. Army as an enlisted man and subsequently as a commissioned officer in Europe (1942-1946); was Huntsv...