Why did Governor Orval Faubus close all Little Rock public high schools for the 1958 school year?

Governor Orval Faubus closed all public high schools in Little Rock for the 1958 school year as a means to resist the desegregation mandated by the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Faubus had previously defied a federal court order to integrate Little Rock Central High School by deploying the Arkansas National Guard to block nine African American students, known as the Little Rock Nine, from entering the school. This closure was part of a broader strategy in the South to circumvent integration efforts, with many districts following suit by closing schools or subsidizing attendance at private segregated academies. Little Rock Central High School did not reopen with a desegregated student body until 1960.12