Question

I must state here, in all sincerity, it is my firm conviction that it will not be possible to restore or to maintain order and protect the lives and property of the citizens, if forcible integration is carried out tomorrow in the schools of this community.

–Orval Faubus,
September 2, 1957

This had to happen someplace in the South. It was inevitable that there was going to be a plan, worked out, approved, and accepted, for gradual integration. It was inevitable that somewhere a governor, under pressure of extreme segregationists, was going to stop integration by calling out the National Guard.

–Rev. Dunbar H. Ogden Jr.,
President of the Greater Little Rock
Ministerial Association

Read the two passages. Does Rev. Ogden’s statement support Faubus’s statement?

Yes, because Ogden agreed that Faubus’s only concern was public safety.

Yes, because Ogden agreed that integration was a poorly devised scheme.

No, because Ogden believes Faubus gave into pressure by segregationists.

No, because Ogden claims there would never have been any opposition to integration.

Answer 1

No, because Ogden believes Faubus gave into pressure by segregationists. Ogden says a governor, under pressure from extreme segregationists, was inevitable to stop integration—undermining Faubus’s claim it was done solely for public safety.