The historic site describes events that led to the confrontation in which Gov. Orval Faubus marshaled the National Guard to resist integration of the school, along with the resulting violence and ...

Orval Faubus in the Democratic primary. His final political office was back in D.C., this time as a U.S. senator. Pryor served three terms in the Senate, wrapping up his political career in 1996.

He announced that he would run for Governor —a move that might bring him eye to eye with Governor Orval Faubus. Segregationist Alford was elected to Congress in 1958 with the hefty help of ...

Winthrop Rockefeller is confident that he will defeat Orville Faubus next year to become Arkansas' first Republican governor in this century. Last night he spelled out his formulas and his views ...

In September 1957, Arkansas governor Orval Faubus ordered troops from the state National Guard to surround Central High School in Little Rock to prevent nine African American students from enrolling.

In Sept. 1958, when Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus invoked a new state law to halt desegregation, Central High was closed, ...

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 ...

The big surprise: three of the victors are moderates on the integration question, won despite hot-blooded opposition by Segregationist Governor Orval Faubus, who proclaimed on election eve that ...