August 28, 1957

Arthur B. Caldwell, head of the Department of Justice’s civil rights division, met with Governor Orval Faubus and advised him that the federal government could not promise help in maintaining order when Little Rock Central High School was desegregated. Faubus later told reporters that the federal government was trying to force integration on an unwilling public while at the same time demanding that states handle any ensuing problems on their own.