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| Creator: | Mingus, Charles, 1922-1979 |
| Title: | Fables of Faubus |
| Date: | 1957 |
| Description: | Charles Mingus's handwritten trumpet score for his jazz composition "Fables of Faubus." Mingus wrote this song in response to Arkansas Governer Orval Faubus summoning the Arkanasas National Guard to prevent nine African American students from entering Little Rock Central High School. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Music |
| Subjects: | Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994 | Segregation in education--Arkansas--Little Rock | Discrimination in education--Arkansas--Little Rock | Race discrimination--Arkansas--Little Rock | Governors--Arkansas | African American composers | African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century | Little Rock Public Schools (Little Rock, Ark.) | Arkansas. National Guard | Civil rights--United States | African Americans--Civil rights--Arkansas--Little Rock | Protest songs--United States | United States |
| Collection: | With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty |
| Institution: | Library of Congress |
| Contributors: | Library of Congress | "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty Collection (Library of Congress) |
| Online Publisher: | [Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress |
| Original Material: | Forms part of the "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty Collection, Library of Congress, Music Division, Washington, D.C. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of the "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty Collection. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/images/br0131s.jpg |
