Civil Rights; Integration; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); Daisy Bates; Christopher C. Mercer; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Herbert Thomas
Letter from Adolphine Terry describing April 10 meeting of an interracial group at Dunbar Community Center.
Integration; Civil Rights; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); Arkansas Plan; Rufus K. Young
Letter from AME minister Rufus K. Young applauding Herbert Thomas and the Arkansas Plan Committee for their efforts, but declining to endorse their plan, 1958.
Politics and Government; Education; Integration; African-Americans; Blacks
Act 7, passed in a special session of the Arkansas General Assembly in 1958, allowed white students to choose whether they wanted to attend integrated classes or not.
Little Rock (Ark.) Nine; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Education; Integration
Ernest Green was one of the nine African American students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Green became the first black graduate of the school in 1958.
Mothers League; Womens Emergency Committee; Integration; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Education
List of the Mothers League officers. Segregationists, the Mothers League was formed in opposition to the Womens Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC).
Integration; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); PTA; Jefferson Elementary School
Jefferson Elementary School PTA bulletin regarding election of Little Rock School Board Members, focusing on qualities that PTA members should consider.
STOP; STOP; Integration; Little Rock Central High School; Education; Blacks; African-Americans
Broadside issued by S.T.O.P. (Stop This Outrageous Purge) urging Little Rock voters to recall school district board members, who had dismissed moderate teachers.
Little Rock Central High School; Blacks; African-Americans; Integration; Lost Year; Education
An almost-empty hallway inside Central High School in September 1958, when Governor Faubus closed the Little Rock public high schools to avoid integration.
Integration; Blacks; African-Americans; Education; Little Rock Central High School; Lost Year
Three female public school students watch a class on television in September 1958, during the Lost Year when Gov. Orval Faubus closed Little Rock's public high schools to avoid integration.
Integration; Education; Blacks; African-Americans; Little Rock Central High School; Lost Year
A student watches a science class on television in September 1958, during the Lost Year when Gov. Orval Faubus closed the Little Rock public high schools to avoid integration.
Flyer issued by the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) calling for the reopening of the Little Rock public schools after Gov. Faubus closed them to avoid integration in 1958.
