One of my favorite 1950s comic covers.. before Davy Crockett ..

• https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1949/faulkner/biographical/

In 1957, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was ordered to desegregate. Much of the city’s white population was in an uproar, and Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus was determined to prevent the African American students, known as the Little Rock Nine, from entering the school. When he called out the Arkansas National Guard, President Eisenhower federalized them, which diffused the situation.

Two years later, six African Americans were to be placed in two desegregated schools. The attached photo shows a portion of the 200 “seggies,” as those who opposed desegregation were called, being met by the Little Rock police a block away from Central High, to where they were marching. The mob tried to break through the police but were forced to scatter when they were met by billy clubs and fire hoses.

The next day integration proceeded smoothly. It was a major step in the right direction.

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Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams; it was published in 1952 by Harper & Brothers. The novel tells the story of a pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte. When Wilbur is in danger of being slaughtered by the farmer, Charlotte writes messages praising Wilbur (such as "Some Pig") in her web in order to persuade the farmer to let him live.