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.
Education; Blacks; African-Americans; Integration; Politics and Government
Article published in the Arkansas Gazette reporting on the discussion in the Arkansas Senate regarding a "mixed school bill," which would allow for whites and blacks students in the same schools.
Education; Blacks; African-Americans; Integration; Conway; Arkansas State Teachers College; Joseph N. Manley; Pine Street School
Joseph Norman Manley, a 1954 graduate of the segregated Pine Street School in Conway, was accepted as the first black student at Arkansas State Teachers College (now University of Central Arkansas) in 1956.
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.
Integration; Blacks; African-Americans; Education; Little Rock Central High School; Orval Faubus; Violence
Chronology, originally appearing in the Arkansas Gazette, of the events preceding the calling out of the Arkansas National Guard to escort the nine African American students into Central High School. This chronology was included in the FBI report...
Civil Rights; Blacks; African-Americans; Little Rock (Ark.); Jacob Chapline; Bethel A.M.E. Church; Reconstruction; Railroad Segregation; J.T. Jenifer; E.A. Fulton; Jack Agery; Jerome Lewis; Nathan Warren
Arkansas Gazette article describing efforts to form an organization designed to test the limits of the newly-enacted Arkansas Civil Rights Law of 1873.
Integration; Desegregation; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock Central High School; Little Rock (Ark.); J.N. Heiskell; Harry Ashmore; Arkansas Gazette
Compilation of editorials regarding the Little Rock Central High integration crisis printed by the Arkansas Gazette between September 1 and October 25, 1957.
Education; Integration; Blacks; African-Americans; Little Rock Central High School; Religion; Arkansas Gazette
Arkansas Gazette editorial, reprinted in the Arkansas Baptist, regarding the clergy's role in the integration of the Little Rock public schools in 1957.
Integration; Bigotry; Blacks; African-Americans; Religion; Lafayette Sammons; Central Baptist Church-Jonesboro
Letter written to Erwin L. McDonald, editor of the Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, from Lafayette Sammons, of Jonesboro, expressing his opposition to integration.
Integration; Desegregation; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock Central High School; Little Rock (Ark.); Emmett E. Miller; White Citizens Council; Hugh Lynn Adams; Mississippi County; Crittenden County; Amis Guthridge; William S. Clark; Ott...
FBI interview with Emmett E. Miller, president of Crittenden County White Citizens Council, regarding the actions of both he and his organization in the events surrounding the integration of Little Rock Central High School.
