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| Creator: | Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994 |
| Creator: | Bass, Jack |
| Creator: | De Vries, Walter |
| Title: | Oral history interview with Orval Faubus, June 14, 1974 |
| Date: | 1974 June 14 |
| Description: | Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus reflects on the effects of his twelve-year tenure in the governor's mansion, state politics, and, of course, desegregation. Faubus paints himself as a populist who helped rescue Arkansas from backwardness with social programs and infrastructure. Merciless mischaracterizations from a lazy and hostile press have sullied his legacy, he claims, ignoring his many accomplishments and obscuring the true story of what happened on the courthouse steps in 1957. This interview will be useful to researchers interested in Arkansas politics in the middle of the twentieth century, the rising influence of the media in politics, and desegregation. 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: | Transcripts | Sound recordings | Oral histories |
| Subjects: | Bumpers, Dale | Fulbright, J. William (James William), 1905-1995 | Rockefeller, Winthrop, 1912-1973 | Long, Huey Pierce, 1893-1935 | Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994 | African Americans--Political activity | Arkansas--Politics and government | Democratic Party (Ark.) | Governors--Arkansas | Press and politics--Arkansas | School integration--Arkansas | Governors--Arkansas | School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock | Little Rock (Ark.) | Pulaski County (Ark.) |
| Collection: | Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement |
| Institution: | Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| Contributors: | Southern Oral History Program | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library | Oral histories of the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)) |
| Online Publisher: | [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill. | 2006 |
| Original Material: | Duration: 01:35:30 |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of Oral histories of the American South collection. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/A-0031/menu.html |
