July 15, 2009

In 1957, when federal judge John E. Miller refused to decide a suit requesting that the desegregation of Little Rock (Pulaski County) schools be delayed, U.S. District Judge Ronald N. Davies of North Dakota was temporarily assigned to Arkansas. Davies, shown here, ordered that integration must proceed as planned.

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