Arkansas Politics and Government, Second Edition

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[First Page] [383], (1) Lines: 0 to 57 ——— 12.606pt PgV ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [383], (1) Notes preface 1. Governor Roane quoted in Clara B. Kerman, “The Birth of Public Schools,” in Arkansas: Colony and State, ed. Leland Duvall (Little Rock: Rose Publishing, 1973), 108; Governor Davis quoted in David M. Tucker, Arkansas: A People and Their Reputation (Memphis tn: Memphis State University Press, 1985), 63. 2. G. W. Featherstonaugh, Excursion through the Slave States (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1844), 95. 3. Governor Faubus speaking on Face the Nation, 31 August 1958. 1. the past in the present 1. The event received extensive coverage in “In Little Rock, a Plea to Close Racial Divide,” New York Times, 26 September 1997; and “Clinton: Progress But Also Perils,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 26 September 1997. 2. The Central High episode is one of the most thoroughly discussed events in recent Arkansas history. An extensive account is Tony Freyer, The Little Rock Crisis: A Constitutional Interpretation (Westport ct: Greenwood Press, 1984). David Wallace,“OrvalEugeneFaubus,”inTheGovernorsofArkansas,2nded.,ed.Timothy P. Donovan, Willard B. Gatewood Jr., and Jeannie M. Whayne (Fayetteville: University ofArkansas Press, 1995), provides an excellent bibliography, pp. 329– 31. For Faubus’s version, see Orval E. Faubus, Down from the Hills (Little Rock: Pioneer Press, 1980), chaps. 11–24. For a much more objective account see Roy Reed, Faubus (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1997), 159–263, and several articles and interviews in the 19 September 1997 Arkansas Times. The Little Rock Crisis is placed in the broader historical context of African American activism in the city and state in John A. Kirk, Redefining the Color Line: Black 384 Notes to Pages 2–5 [384], (2) Lines: 57 to ——— 0.0pt PgV ——— Long Page PgEnds: TE [384], (2) Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940–1970 (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002). 3. Little Rock public schools were closed for the 1958 school year, and not a single new industry located in Little Rock from then until 1961 (Arkansas Democrat, 10 January 1982). Several analysts of modern southern politics attribute the militant segregationism of other southern governors to Faubus’s example. See Jack Bass and Walter DeVries, The Transformation of Southern Politics (New York: New American Library, 1977), 90; Monroe Lee Billington, The Political South in the Twentieth Century (New York: Scribner, 1975), 122; Earl Black, Southern Governors and Civil Rights (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976), 99, 299. 4. Bishop Turner quoted in The Freeman (Indianapolis), 5 January 1989; Mifflin W. Gibbs, Shadow and Light, An Autobiography (New York: Arno Press, 1968), 126, 131, 136–39. For Little Rock’s moderate racial climate, see also Freyer, Little Rock Crisis, 20–22. 5. naacp director quoted in Robert A. Leflar, The First 100 Years, Centennial History of the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Foundation, 1972), 279. Leflar (pp. 275–88) provides details of the nonviolent integration of black students at the university. That some Arkansas blacks voted prior to the 1960s is noted by Boyce A. Drummond, “Arkansas Politics: A Study of a One-Party System” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1957), 76; and V. O. Key Jr., Southern Politics (New York: Random House, 1949), 639. 6. Michael Rowett and Michael R. Wickline, “In Busy Day, Legislature Passes Bill to Create Daisy Bates Holiday,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 16 February 2001; Mark Minton, “Governor Signs Bill for Bates Holiday,” Arkansas DemocratGazette , 22 February 2001; “OthersWho Have Lain in State at Capitol,”Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 23 May 2003. 7. It is assumed that Clinton received over 95 percent of the black vote in 1982; clearly, these ninety thousand or so voters were a key part of his seventy-eightthousand -vote margin. See John Brummett, “Clinton’s Appeal to Blacks Rests on Record, Skill,” Arkansas Gazette, 6 December 1982. 8. Especially since Van Dalsem’s senator, Guy (“Mutt”) Jones, led the successful opposition to era ratification, there is reason to doubt his genuine conversion to feminism. For a thorough analysis of these events, see Robert Thompson, “Barefoot and Pregnant: The Education of Paul Van Dalsem,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 57 (1998): 377–404. Hereafter cited as ahq. 9. Governor Pope quoted in Lonnie J. White, Politics on the Southwestern Frontier: Arkansas Territory, 1819–1836 (Memphis tn: Memphis State University Press, 1964), 158. Governor McMath’s caravan described in Jim Lester, A Man for Arkansas (Little Rock: Rose Publishing, 1976), 142–43. [3.133.12.172] Project MUSE (2024-04-24...