Little Rock High School, Arkansas
Orval Faubus was the Governor of Arkansas during this confrontation.
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Orval Faubus
Orval Faubus
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Orval Faubus, the former governor of Arkansas, was married to Mary A. Faubus. They were married in 1947 and had three children together. Mary Faubus was supportive of her husband's political career but largely stayed out of the public spotlight. She passed away in 2003, a few years after Faubus's death in 1994.
Orval Faubus
He was the Governor of Arkansas who resisted the desegregation of the state's schools in Little Rock in the 1950s.
Orval Faubus and Woodrow Wilson Mann both served as the Governor of Arkansas. Faubus, a Democrat, famously opposed desegregation and used the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the integration of Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Mann, also a Democrat, succeeded Faubus as governor in 1967 and focused on increasing funding for education and implementing progressive policies.
Orval Faubus
Faubus ordered states troopers to prevent African American students from integrating a school.-Novanet