- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Orval Faubus, June 14, 1974
- Creator:
- Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994
- Contributor to Resource:
- Bass, Jack
De Vries, Walter
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1974-06-14
- Subject:
- African Americans--Political activity
Arkansas--Politics and government
Democratic Party (Ark.)
Governors--Arkansas
Press and politics--Arkansas
School integration--Arkansas
School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock - People:
- Bumpers, Dale
Fulbright, J. William (James William), 1905-1995
Rockefeller, Winthrop, 1912-1973
Long, Huey Pierce, 1893-1935
Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994 - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County, Little Rock, 34.74648, -92.28959
- Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - 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. - Metadata URL:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/A-0031/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 01:35:30
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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