Next week in Little Rock, Ark., former President Bill Clinton and several presidential candidates will commemorate perhaps Americaâ??s most important civil rights battle â?? the desegregation of Central High School.
Fifty years ago, Democratic Gov. Orval Faubus defied the federal government, tried to stop school integration and created the gravest constitutional crisis since the Civil War.
Thankfully, he lost. In the first and most important test of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, federal law trumped state politics. Had integration failed at Little Rock, itâ??s hard to imagine it succeeding anywhere.
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