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.
Letter from Earl Hurt in Caddo Gap, Montgomery County, Arkansas, to the editor of Arkansas Faith, a magazine published by the White Citizens Council of Arkansas.
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.
Circular appearing in the Arkansas Gazette in July 1858, and signed by prominent men of the state regarding the evils of free persons of color and supporting their exclusion.
William Hansen, an activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), participating in a civil rights demonstration at Arkansas AM&N College in Pine Bluff.
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...
