Silas Hunt; Harold Flowers; Wiley Branton; University of Arkansas; Law; Education; Integration; African-Americans; Blacks
Pine Bluff attorneys Harold Flowers, left, and Wiley Branton, right, watch as Silas Hunt completes paperwork to attend the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1948. Hunt was the first African American to attend the law school in Fayetteville.
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.
Women's Emergency Committee; Women; Integration; Little Rock (Ark.); Education
Flyer issued by the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC). Gov. Orval Faubus closed the Little Rock public schools to avoid integration. Virginia closed schools as well, but reopened after the law was declared unconstitutional.
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.
