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TIL Orval Faubus's sister, Bonnie, openly opposed him over attempting to block the integration of Little Rock Central High School in 1957

https://www.boston.com/news/national-news/2013/05/25/bonnie-faubus-salcido-93-sister-who-criticized-segregationist-ark-governor/
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Bonnie Faubus Salcido, 93, sister who criticized segregationist Ark. governor

NEW YORK — Bonnie Faubus Salcido, a sister of Arkansas governor Orval E. Faubus and the only member of his family to openly oppose him for trying to block the integration of Little Rock Central High School during the South’s racial troubles of the 19…
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“Their father, John Samuel Faubus, a onetime organizer for the Socialist Party, had also opposed Orval’s actions, she said, but mainly in private and in pseudonymous letters to the editor of The Arkansas Gazette.”

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