Women's Emergency Committee; Women; Integration; Little Rock (Ark.); Education
Flyer issued by the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC). Gov. Orval Faubus closed the Little Rock public schools to avoid integration. Virginia closed schools as well, but reopened after the law was declared unconstitutional.
Integration; Women's Emergency Committee; Education; Blacks; African-Americans; Little Rock (Ark.) Public Schools; Vivion L. Brewer
Letter written Vivion Brewer, Chairman of the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, to Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine expressing thanks for editorial support for public schools.
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).
Integration; Racism; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); Mother's League; Women's Emergency Committee; Margaret C. Jackson
Advertisment by the segregationist Mothers League of Little Rock "to expose" the Women's Emergency Committee.
Flyer issued by the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) calling for the reopening of the Little Rock public schools after Gov. Faubus closed them to avoid integration in 1958.
Women; Education; Women's Emergency Committee; Little Rock Central High School; Integration; Blacks; African-Americans
The Pike-Fletcher-Terry House in Little Rock was the home of Adolphine Fletcher Terry, the leader of the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC).
