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; Segregation; Education; Little Rock (Ark.) Junior College; George Donaghey
Undated letter from Finos Phillips to the members of the Little Rock School Board expressing his opposition to black students attending Little Rock Junior College.
Integration; Education; Ouachita Baptist College; Blacks; African-Americans; Jeff Peckham; Erwin L. McDonald
Letter writte by Jeff Peckham of Ouachita Baptist College to Erwin L. McDonald, editor of Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, decrying segregation at the college.
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; Desegregation; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock Central High School; Little Rock (Ark.); Sweet Home (Ark.) (Ark.); College Station; Tom Downie; Wiley Branton; Jackie L. Shropshire; Thad Williams
Hearing by Pulaski County School Board of petitions filed by the NAACP to integrate Sweet Home and College Station schools.
Integration; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock Central High School; Little Rock (Ark.)
Letter from white parents Grace and Lee Lorch, Philander Smith College, confirming their request that their daughter be enrolled in same school as her black playmates.
Integration; Education; Virgil Blossom; Little Rock (Ark.); Lee Lorch; Grace Lorch; Alice Lorch; Philander Smith College
Letter to Virgil Blossom, Superintendent of the Little Rock Public Schools, from Lee and Grace Lorch, requesting permission for their daughter to attend a black school.
