Reminiscences of Orval Faubus [electronic resource] : oral history, 1971

Biographical Note

Governor of Arkansas

Scope and Contents

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

Subjects

• African Americans--Education.
• African Americans--Segregation.
• Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994--Interviews.
• Governors--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Luter, John, interviewer.
• Oral histories.
• School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock.
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.