Orval Faubus

went to California State University and earned his Bachelor’s degree in Sociology. He went to graduate school in Los Angeles and earned his Master’s Degree in Welfare. On ABC’s Good Morning America, Terrence Roberts got to meet Orval Faubus face to face on the show. Orval Faubus was a Governor, he wanted to defend all white people, he wanted to be re-elected so, he ordered the National Guard Soldiers to stop the nine members that are African American from entering or going to Central High.…

The police escorted the students into the high school’s side door unnoticed. Outside, the mob learns of the students entrance and starts to get mad and aggressive. The day before classes begin for the new school year, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus summons the Arkansas National Guard to surround Central High and block and attempts of the 9 students entering. The 9 students integrating goal was to get into the…

To make sure these students were not allowed in Governor Faubus used the National Guard to block their way in. Infuriated by the Governor’s actions, President Eisenhower sent in the Federal Troops to override the National Guard and allow the nine African American students to attend the high school. Though slavery…

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the start for desegregation in the schools, “on September 4, 1957, nine black teenagers attempting to enter Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, for the first time were turned away by the National Guard, which was called out by Governor Orval Faubus ‘to preserve the peace and aert violence’” (Cushner, 2015, p. 33). Central High School was just one of a variety of methods to block integration,…

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