On January 10, 1951, the Board of Trustees of the Little Rock Public Library voted to fully integrate its Main Library. Before this, black library card holders could only use the Ivey Branch.
Integration; Blacks; African-Americans; Education; Little Rock Central High School; Lost Year
Three female public school students watch a class on television in September 1958, during the Lost Year when Gov. Orval Faubus closed Little Rock's public high schools to avoid integration.
Integration; Desegregation; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); Oregon Report; Floyd W. Parsons
Memorandum prepared by Little Rock Public Schools Superintendent Floyd W. Parsons summarizing the Oregon Report and its possible usefulness in the desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
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.
Little Rock Central High School; Blacks; African-Americans; Integration; Lost Year; Education
An almost-empty hallway inside Central High School in September 1958, when Governor Faubus closed the Little Rock public high schools to avoid integration.
Integration; Education; Blacks; African-Americans; Little Rock Central High School; Lost Year
A student watches a science class on television in September 1958, during the Lost Year when Gov. Orval Faubus closed the Little Rock public high schools to avoid integration.
Flyer issued by the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) calling for the reopening of the Little Rock public schools after Gov. Faubus closed them to avoid integration in 1958.
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.
Desegregation; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock Central High School; Little Rock (Ark.); Aaron v. Cooper
In light of the Federal decision in Cooper vs. Aaron, Little Rock Board of Education issue official notice of plans to proceed with gradual desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
Letter to George Edwards of Texarkana, leader of a Ku Klux Klan faction from the National Imperial Dragon of the KKK challenging Edwards to a public debate to address allegations
Little Rock (Ark.); Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Integration
Act 4, passed by the Arkansas General Assembly in the Extraordinary Session of 1958, gave Governor Orval E. Faubus the power to close the public schools in order to prevent integration.
Women; Suffrage; Ida Joe Brooks; Politics and Government
Article from the New York Times regarding Arkansas Attorney General John Arbuckle's ruling that even though women had the right to vote, they could not run for public office.
