Integration; Civil Rights; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); John Walker
Telegram from attorney John Walker regarding Little Rock school's plans to bus black students to black schools in 1966, contrary to previous statements.
Integration; Blacks; African-Americans; Education; Little Rock Central High School; Demonstrations
A young African American boy watches as segregationists march in Little Rock from the Arkansas State Capitol to Central High School to protest the integration of the school
Segregation; Desegregation; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Ozell Sutton; Arkansas Council on Human Relations
Letter from Daisy Bates to attorney Wiley A. Branton discussing the need to coordinate desegreation through the NAACP.
Segregationists; Racism; Little Rock Central High School; Robert J. Norwood; Social Conditions
Article in the New York Times regarding the arrest of Robert J. Norwood, head of the Arkansas States Rights Council and an ardent segregationist, for public intoxication in a nightclub catering to African-Americans.
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; Daisy Bates; Little Rock (Ark.); Education; William G. Cooper; Jr.; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Letter to Daisy Bates from William G. Cooper, Jr., president of the Little Rock School Board addressing her request to integrate the schools in September 1955.