European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                It to i Obj d looks Back on Little Rock 1957 by Robert l. Shaw a p staff writer former Arkansas gov. Oival  says he took the most difficult course to justify when he called out the National guard at Little Rock Central High school 10 years ago Trig Gering the first Federal state clash Over court ordered school desegregation. He said in a recent interview How Ever that the firmness with which he acted prevented a great Many injuries and very Likely some  he cited As a contrast the recent negro riots in which he said indecision contributed to the damage. Faubus said if he had it to do Over he would make no changes in the september 1957 actions that made Himat once one of the most hated and admired men in the nation and made Little Rock a Symbol of Defiance. Federal troops broke the impasse sept. 25, 1957, escorting nine negro students into previously All White Cen trial. Faubus went on television sept. 2two Days before the negro students were to be admitted to the school to announce he was calling out the National guard to preserve Law and order. He d do it again says Orval Faubus of 1957 actions in Little Rock crisis. When the nine showed up for school guardsmen who ringed the Campus turned them away despite an order by . District judge Ronald n. Davies the Day before that integration proceed under a school Board plan adopted in 1955one year after the . Supreme court desegregation opinion. Faubus hinted then and no maintains that he acted on information that masses of armed Whites and some negroes Bent on violence we removing into the City from outlying areas of Arkansas and other states. He asked for More time to carry out the court order. Some of my advisers said the safes course was to sit Back and let some thing happen which most of them were sure would happen in the Way of Vio Lence injury and perhaps death Fau bus said. Then i would be completely justified in calling out the guard to restore order and prevent any further  main thing i was thinking was Well that s the easy Way to justify my self if i eventually had to Call out the guard and i was sure i  Federal state confrontation continued despite a meeting Between Fau bus and then president Dwight d. Eisen Hower. It ended sept. 23, when the governor removed the guard. He had been enjoined by Davies not to interfere with integration. The violence the governor said heated to prevent and his critics said he fomented erupted the next Day when the nine students entered a Side door of the school As City police battled mob of 1,000 Whites. A few persons were injured none seriously. The nine were taken out of the school before noon and Eisenhower ordered in the 101st airborne div that night to enforce the court order. The troops plus guardsmen federalized by Eisenhower stayed on the Job through the school year escorting the negroes to and from classes As class mates tripped them jabbed them with pencils and called them names. I wondered each Day How they could go Back to school the next  says Daisy Bates then president of Thea Kansas Branch of the a act and now a member of the National Board of the organization. They Felt that if it had to happen to them they would do the damnedest they could not for themselves but Fornall Black children. That s How they stood it How they kept  Federal troops were sent in when violence erupted after then gov. Faubus withdrew National guard. Saturday september 16, 1967 the stars and stripes completed the year at Cen trial except Winnijean Brown now of Carbondale 111., who was expelled she said for calling a girl who had hit her White  All went on to College. The nine now Are scattered through out the United states. The Only one remaining in Little Rock Elizabeth Eck Ford refused to Grant an interview. The others Are Jefferson Thomas now with the army in Vietnam Ernest Green of Brooklyn n.y., the first negro to graduate from Central Gloria Ray Chicago now a teacher Carlotta Walls a student at the University of san Francisco Terrance Roberts of Losangeles and Thelma Mothershed. A teacher at East St. Louis 111.mrs. Bates said the 1957 crisis Speed de up the Pace of integration through out the South and focused attention on the second class education Given be  school District s troubles did not end when Federal troops entered. The City s White and negro High schools were closed during the 1958-59 school year when District patrons voted against immediate integration of All  students attended private schools established by a private corporation or transferred out of the  schools reopened in 1959 on an integrated  Little Rock schools now Are Inte grated at All Levels. Last year More than 300 of Central s 2.100 students were negroes. More than 400 Are expected to enrol this month. Faubus who served six two year terms from 1955 to january of this year says he believes that historians who View his actions objectively will not be harsh with  critics tried to make it appear that there would t have been any prob Lem had if not been for my actions he said. That false Assumption has Bee Laid completely aside by happenings since that , everyone knows there is a prob Lem and it s not just created by a political figure or figures on the scene atthe time. If so who created the ones in Newark Rochester Detroit and Washington d.c.?" Page 11