Returning veterans in this state after World War II sparked the "GI Revolt" in Garland County.
Returning veterans in this state after World War II sparked the "GI Revolt" in Garland County. The notably biracial Southern Tenant Farmers Union was founded at Tyronza in this state during the Great Depression, and Governor Frank White allowed state utility rates to dramatically rise to pay for nuclear power plants in the Grand Gulf Affair. A shooting at Hoop Spur sarked the killing of black sharecroppers in a series of massacres documented by NAACP Field Secretary Walter White near this state's town of (*) Elaine in 1919. Senators from this state included Dale Bumpers and J. William Fulbright. One attempt to call out this state's National Guard was overridden by Dwight Eisenhower, who sent in the 101st Airborne instead. Orval Faubus governed--for 10 points--what state where in 1957 nine black schoolchildren attempted to enroll in Central High in Little Rock?
Returning veterans in this state after World War II sparked the "GI Revolt" in Garland County.
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