School segregationist, former Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus, dies. (Obituary)

Jet | January 9, 1995 | Copyright

Former Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus, 84, whose refusal to let nine Black students into Little Rock's segregated Central High School in 1957 forced President Dwight Eisenhower to send in federal troops, recently died in Conway, AR.

Faubus, who had suffered from spinal cancer, rose from the backwoods poverty of the Ozark Mountain hamlet Greasy Creek to the state's highest office with no more than an elementary school education.

The conservative Democrat was the state's longest-serving governor-from 1954 to 1966.

In 1957, he ordered the Arkansas National ...

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