Integration; Education; Blacks; African-Americans; Wesley Pruden; Little Rock Central High School; Amis Guthridge; Violence; Orval Faubus
Statement of Grace Fitzhugh given to the FBI regarding her attendance at a meeting to discuss opposition to the integration of Central High School. Her statement was taken during an FBI investigation regarding harrassment of the nine black students...
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; Blacks; African-Americans; Education; Little Rock Central High School; Violence; Arthur J. Bickle; Alex Wilson
Statement of Bobby Jones, reporter with the Pine Bluff Commercial newspaper, given to the FBI regarding him witnessing violence during the integration of Central High School.
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.
Letter from Selsus E. Tull, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to Erwin L. McDonald, editor of Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, disagreeing with McDonald's views on integration.
Integration; Blacks; African-Americans; Education; Little Rock Central High School; Daisy Bates; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; J.C. Crenshaw; Fred Darragh; Harry Ashmore; Jackie Shropshire; Thad Williams
Statement of Virgil Blossom regarding Daisy Bates and the integration of Central High School in 1957.