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- Pulaski County Legislator's Voting Record 1958 - 1959
- Integration; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Legislators
- The official voting record of elected officials in Pulaski County for the years 1958 - 1959.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- Pulaski County School Board Hearing on Integration
- Integration; Desegregation; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock Central High School; Little Rock (Ark.); Sweet Home (Ark.) (Ark.); College Station; Tom Downie; Wiley Branton; Jackie L. Shropshire; Thad Williams
- Hearing by Pulaski County School Board of petitions filed by the NAACP to integrate Sweet Home and College Station schools.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- Negroes Bolt The GOP Convention
- Civil Rights; African-Americans; Blacks; Republican Party
- Article describing black/white schism at Arkansas state Republican nominating convention occurring when "lilly white" nominees from Pulaski County were elected as delegates to the national convention in Chicago.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- Arkansas Legislators Laud Governor Wallace
- White Citizens Council; Civil Rights; African-Americans; Blacks
- Arkansas legislators pass resolution praising Alabama Governor George Wallace, 1973.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- Faubus Bates Broadside
- Daisy Bates; Orval Faubus; Civil Rights; Integration; African-Americans; Blacks; Segregationists
- Broadside photo depicting Daisy Bates and Orval Faubus with unidentified third person meeting in governor's office, 1959.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- Letter endorsing Herbert Thomas' integration plan
- Integration; Civil Rights; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.)
- Letter from Marion L. Crist to Herbert Thomas, praising Thomas's moderate efforts to end Central High School Crisis, 1958.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- Letters endorsing Herbert Thomas integration plans
- Integration; Civil Rights; Littole Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.)
- Letter from William H. McLean to Herbert Thomas praising Thomas' plans to resolve Central High School Crisis, 1958.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- Adolphine Fletcher Terry letter on racial situation
- 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.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- Herbert Thomas letter admits defeat of his program
- Civil Rights; Integration; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); Arkansas Plan
- Form letter used by Herbert Thomas to acknowledge a lack of organization support for his integration proposal, "The Arkansas Plan," 1958.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- Letter praising Herbert Thomas for leadership
- Integration; Civil Rights; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); Arkansas Plan
- Letter from Glenn A. Green to Herbert Thomas thanking him for his Arkansas Plan, 1958.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- Methodist minister endorses Arkansas Plan
- Integration; Civil Rights; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); Arkansas Plan
- Letter from Methodist minister Fred G. Roebuck endorsing the goals of the Arkansas Plan, 1958.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- AME Church Letter to Arkansas Plan Committee
- 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.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- Statement of harrassment by black student
- Racism; Integration; Civil Rights; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); Police Harrassment
- Transcription of Ellis Thomas, Jr. statement regarding police harrassment, 1960.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- Aaron v. Cooper Lawsuit Brief Supplement
- Education; Integration; African-Americans; Little Rock (Ark.); Aaron v. Cooper; Virgil Blossom
- Aaron v. Cooper appellees file supplemental information, 1957.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- FBI Interview with Beverly Maxine Burks regarding the integration of Central High School
- Education; Little Rock Central High School; Violence; African-Americans; Blacks
- The FBI launched an investigation into violence aimed at the nine black students integrating Little Rock Central High School. Miss Beverly Burks was a 10th grader at the school, 1957.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- Segregationist leader Jimmy Karam
- Jimmy Karam; Little Rock Central High School; Education; Integration; African-Americans; Blacks
- Jimmy Karam, a Little Rock businessman was one of the leaders of the anti-integrationist movement during the Little Rock Central High School Crisis in 1957.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- Daisy Bates
- Daisy Bates; Integration; Little Rock Central High School; Education; Blacks; African-Americans
- Daisy Bates, president of the Arkansas Chapter of the NAACP, 1957.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- Class Choice Act of 1958
- Politics and Government; Education; Integration; African-Americans; Blacks
- Act 7, passed in a special session of the Arkansas General Assembly in 1958, allowed white students to choose whether they wanted to attend integrated classes or not.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- Graduation Photograph of Ernest Green
- Little Rock (Ark.) Nine; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Education; Integration
- Ernest Green was one of the nine African American students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Green became the first black graduate of the school in 1958.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
- Scipio Africanus Jones
- Scipio Jones; African-Americans; Blacks; Law; Elaine Race Massacre
- Scipio A. Jones was a prominent African American attorney in Little Rock who successfully defended the twelve black sentenced to death in the aftermath of the Elaine Race Massacres.
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity