Voting Rights; Blacks; African-Americans; T.H. Barton; Politics and Government
A letter from C.E. Webb of Pine Bluff encouraging Gov. Homer Adkins to call a special session so the Arkansas Legislature can enact laws to deny voting rights to African-Americans.
Integration; Desegregation; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); Wiley A. Branton; J.C. Crenchaw; Virgil Blossom
Letter from Virgil Blossom to Wiley Branton, chairman of the Legal Redress Committee of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP. The letter is in response to a petition regarding development of an early integration plan for Little Rock schools.
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; 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.
Integration; Desegregation; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock Central High School; Little Rock (Ark.); Amis Guthridge
Letter from Little Rock School Board containing the reasoning behind their denial of the requests contained in segregationist Amis Guthridge's letter for separate schools for whites.
Integration; Bigotry; Blacks; African-Americans; Religion; Lafayette Sammons; Central Baptist Church-Jonesboro
Letter written to Erwin L. McDonald, editor of the Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, from Lafayette Sammons, of Jonesboro, expressing his opposition to integration.
Civil Rights; Integration; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); Daisy Bates; Christopher C. Mercer; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Herbert Thomas
Letter from Adolphine Terry describing April 10 meeting of an interracial group at Dunbar Community Center.
Integration; Civil Rights; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); Arkansas Plan; Rufus K. Young
Letter from AME minister Rufus K. Young applauding Herbert Thomas and the Arkansas Plan Committee for their efforts, but declining to endorse their plan, 1958.
Letter from W.M.Sheperd, Vice-President of Arkansas Power & Light, congratulating School superintendent Virgil Blossom on his selection as "Little Rock Man of the Year."
Integration; Little Rock Central High School; Little Rock (Ark.); Virgil Blossom
Letter from W.R. Shepherd, Arkansas Power and Light, congratulating Superintendent Virgil Blossom on his election as the 1956 Little Rock Man Of The Year.
