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.
Integration; Desegregation; African-Americans; Blacks; Little Rock (Ark.); Little Rock (Ark.) Council on Education
Report compiled by the Little Rock Council on Schools highlighting the disparity in conditions between white and black schools in the Little Rock public school system.
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.
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; 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.
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.
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.
Education; Blacks; African-Americans; Integration; Politics and Government
Article published in the Arkansas Gazette reporting on the discussion in the Arkansas Senate regarding a "mixed school bill," which would allow for whites and blacks students in the same schools.
Integration; Daisy Bates; Little Rock (Ark.); Education; William G. Cooper; Jr.; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Letter to Daisy Bates from William G. Cooper, Jr., president of the Little Rock School Board addressing her request to integrate the schools in September 1955.
Act 5, passed during the Special Session of the Arkansas General Assembly in 1958, gave the state power to withhold funds to schools closed by the Governor. This act effectively allowed the Governor to use public funds to support non-integrated...
Mothers League; Womens Emergency Committee; Integration; Little Rock Central High School; African-Americans; Blacks; Education
List of the Mothers League officers. Segregationists, the Mothers League was formed in opposition to the Womens Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC).
