ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, April 21, 1996 TAG: 9604220082
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
Ronald N. Davies, who as a federal judge in 1957 ordered the schools of Little Rock, Ark., to integrate and prevailed over Gov. Orval Faubus, died Thursday in Fargo, N.D. He was 91.
He died in a nursing home where he had moved last August, said his son Timothy.
On three occasions, he ordered the Little Rock School Board to carry out its plan for integration at Central High School and abide by the U.S. Supreme Court decision, in 1954 in Brown vs. Board of Education, that school segregation was unconstitutional.
His climactic ruling came Sept. 20, 1957, when he prohibited Faubus, a steadfast opponent of integration, from ``obstructing or preventing by the use of the National Guard'' the attendance of black students at the school.
- The New York Times
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