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The coordinated campaign to defy Brown v. Board continues to impact education today, as many schools remain racially ...
The eye of Sauron descends on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, eventually, Brown v. Board of Education.
She reconnected with Morris in London, who was in the midst of completing a postwar assignment with an Army buddy, Orval Faubus, who later spent 12 years as governor of Arkansas. Morris and Hertha ...
In September 1957, then-Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus defied a court order to desegregate Little Rock Central High School. Faubus ordered the state’s National Guard to block nine Black students ...
WAMPUM, Pa. — On a cold Monday in early December, Don Mancini drove along the winding roads of western Pennsylvania. He took a right turn at an old white church, lumbered up a hill, and parked his car ...
Ten years ago, in a major test of the Supreme Court’s educational desegregation rulings, Arkansas’ Governor Orval Faubus ordered out the National Guard to prevent Negro pupils from entering an ...