Integration; Desegregation; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); Brooks Hays; Virgil Blossom
A draft copy of a bill sponsored by Congressman Brooks Hays requiring study by the US Commission on Civil Rights of the problems in school desegregation.
Integration; Blacks; African-Americans; Little Rock Central High School; Segregation; Politics and Government
Rep. Brooks Hays of Little Rock was considered a moderate during the integration crisis of 1957 and was defeated by segregationist write-in candidate Dale Alford in the 1958 election.
Integration; Racism; Little Rock Central High School; White Citizens Council; Blacks; African-Americans; Segregationists; Wesley Pruden; Dale Alford; Brooks Hays
Article concerning Rev. Wesley Pruden's participation in the White Citizens Council during the Little Rock Central High School Crisis of 1957.
Letter from Selsus E. Tull, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to Erwin L. McDonald, editor of Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, disagreeing with McDonald's views on integration.
