Integration; Civil Rights; University of Arkansas; African-Americans; Blacks; Fayetteville (Ark.)
Telegram from Arkansas State Auditor J. Oscar Humphrey and State Treasurer J. Vance Clayton protesting admittance of black students to the University of Arkansas, 1948.
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.
Jimmy Karam; Little Rock Central High School; Education; Integration; African-Americans; Blacks
Jimmy Karam, a Little Rock businessman was one of the leaders of the anti-integrationist movement during the Little Rock Central High School Crisis in 1957.
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.
Silas Hunt; Harold Flowers; Wiley Branton; University of Arkansas; Law; Education; Integration; African-Americans; Blacks
Pine Bluff attorneys Harold Flowers, left, and Wiley Branton, right, watch as Silas Hunt completes paperwork to attend the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1948. Hunt was the first African American to attend the law school in Fayetteville.
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).