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Beyoncé’s ‘Blackbird’ cover ‘awakens so much,’ Little Rock Nine member says
The Little Rock Nine attended Central High for one year before Gov. Orval Faubus (D) closed all of Little Rock’s high schools for a year to try to prevent desegregation. The nine students went ...
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Member of Little Rock Nine born in East Texas dies at age 83
Thelma Mothershed Wair gained nationwide fame as a child, when she became a Little Rock Nine member and helped ... 1958, when Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus invoked a new state law to halt ...
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Little Rock Central High School, 1957
The governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, had promised in the 1957 election ... At that point, Ernest Green, the only one of the Little Rock Nine who was old enough, graduated from Central High.
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Ike Places Ark. National Guard Under Army Control; U.S. Troops Guard Negroes Entering School
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 ...
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Public Schools: Decade of Desegregation
Arkansas’ Governor Orval Faubus ordered out the National Guard to prevent Negro pupils from entering an all-white Little Rock high school. Last week Little Rock’s school board unanimously ...