On September 25, 1957, nine Black students courageously started their first full day at an all-white high school in Little ...

Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard ... blocked nine African- American students — known as the Little Rock Nine — from entering Central High School.

Old friends were surprised when Arkansas’ Governor Orval Faubus turned from a tolerant moderate into the racist who provoked last September’s Little Rock rioting. They could only surmise that ...

Eisenhower to Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus, Sept. 5, 1957. In September 1957, nine Black children were to be enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock by order of a federal judge pursuant to ...

LITTLE ROCK--Paratroopers from the Army's famed ... under Army control and took them from state control. Gov. Orval Faubus, until today civilian commander of the Guard, called up some of the ...