The Capital Citizens Council encouraged its members to boycott local business advertising in the Arkansas Gazette, which supported the integration of Central High School.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Suffrage; Blacks; African-Americans; Politics and Government
Article advocating that suffrage for African-Americans is not a matter of political principle, but rather is a tool to bolster the Radical Republicans.
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...
Integration; Education; Hugh Patterson; Arkansas Gazette; Arch W. Ford; United Committee for Better Schools; Eisenhower Administration
Press release from the Arkansas State Board of Education announcing a series of meetings on the school situation in Arkansas and future integration after the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education.
Integration; Segregationists; White Citizens' Council; Henry Lowrey; Henry McConnell; Blacks; African-Americans; Amis Guthridge; Robert Brown; Arkansas Gazette; Communism; Ben White
Report of the September 24, 1957 meeting of the Little Rock Chapter of the Citizens' Council of America attended by two FBI agents.
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.
