The voters of Little Rock (pop. 126,300) took a lot of starch out of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus' fight against school integration last month when they washed three Faubusites out of the school board in a recall election (TIME, June 8). Last week a three-judge federal court got on with the job by holding unconstitutional the Faubus-designed state laws that empowered Faubus to lock all four city high schools (2,900 white pupils, 750 Negroes) for the 1958-59 school year and transfer some of their funds to a private school for whites only. By reminding the school board, Faubus and...
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