noa_sohpcr_a-0031 a-0031 sohpcr noa yes Oral history interview with Orval Faubus, June 14, 1974 Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994 Bass, Jack De Vries, Walter 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 Bumpers, Dale Fulbright, J. William (James William), 1905-1995 Rockefeller, Winthrop, 1912-1973 Long, Huey Pierce, 1893-1935 Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994 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. [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill. 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)) 2006 Transcripts Sound recordings Oral histories http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/A-0031/menu.html Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files : 94.1 kilobytes, 174.9 megabytes Mode of access: World Wide Web System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player MP3 format / ca. 174 MB, 01:35:30 Duration: 01:35:30 Forms part of Oral histories of the American South collection. 1974-06-14 Little Rock (Ark.) Pulaski County (Ark.) 20090729 161209