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.
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.
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.
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.
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.