STOP; STOP; Integration; Little Rock Central High School; Education; Blacks; African-Americans
Broadside issued by S.T.O.P. (Stop This Outrageous Purge) urging Little Rock voters to recall school district board members, who had dismissed moderate teachers.
Integration; Desegregation; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock Central High School; Little Rock (Ark.); Arkansas National Guard; Sherman T. Clinger
Signed statement provided by Arkansas National Guard Commanding General Sherman T. Clinger regarding events surrounding integration of Little Rock Central High School.
Integration; Desegregation; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock Central High School; Little Rock (Ark.); James T. Karam; Phillip Back; Sidney Rieger
Statement from Wilson Farnsworth Fowle, New York Times reporter, regarding his introduction to and ensuing observations of James T. Karam and others.
Integration; Desegregation; Little Rock (Ark.) Central High Crisisl; Little Rock (Ark.); Virgil Blossom
Autobiographical typescript by Virgil T. Blossom describing his role in events surrounding Little Rock Central High School desegregation. Part I consists of an overview of Little Rock Central High crisis of 1957, and recounts Blossom's pre-Little...
Integration; Blacks; African-Americans; Education; Little Rock Central High School; Demonstrations
A young African American boy watches as segregationists march in Little Rock from the Arkansas State Capitol to Central High School to protest the integration of the school
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.
Civil Rights; Blacks; African-Americans; Little Rock (Ark.); Jacob Chapline; Bethel A.M.E. Church; Reconstruction; Railroad Segregation; J.T. Jenifer; E.A. Fulton; Jack Agery; Jerome Lewis; Nathan Warren
Arkansas Gazette article describing efforts to form an organization designed to test the limits of the newly-enacted Arkansas Civil Rights Law of 1873.
Integration; Blacks; African-Americans; Education; Little Rock Central High School; Segregation; Jimmy Karam; Leon B. Catlett; Bryce Miller; Woodrow Wilson Mann
Statement of James T. "Jimmy" Karam, a segregationist leader and ally of Gov. Faubus, given to the FBI regarding his involvement in the harrassment of the nine black students integrating Central High School.
Integration; Education; Racism; Jimmy Karam; Little Rock Central High School; Orval Faubus
Statement of Frank Whitbeck, Jr, president of the Pioneer Western Life Insurance Company, given to the FBI regarding his knowledge of segregationist activities of James T. "Jimmy" Karam.
Integration; Blacks; African-Americans; Education; Little Rock Central High School; Jimmy Karam; Sidney Rieger; Labor; Christian American Association; Veterans Industrial Association
Statement of Wilson Fowle, given to the FBI regarding his conversations with James T. "Jimmy" Karam, an ardent segregationist.
