- Collection:
- With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
- Title:
- Fables of Faubus
- Creator:
- Mingus, Charles, 1922-1979
- Date of Original:
- 1957
- Subject:
- 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 - People:
- Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994
- Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- music
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- 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. - Metadata URL:
- http://crdl.usg.edu/id:loc_evenhand_br0131s
- Digital Object URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/images/br0131s.jpg
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty Collection, Library of Congress, Music Division, Washington, D.C.
- Contributing Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
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