Integration; Civil Rights; University of Arkansas; African-Americans; Blacks; Fayetteville (Ark.)
Telegram from Arkansas State Auditor J. Oscar Humphrey and State Treasurer J. Vance Clayton protesting admittance of black students to the University of Arkansas, 1948.
Education; Blacks; African-Americans; Integration; Conway; Arkansas State Teachers College; Joseph N. Manley; Pine Street School
Joseph Norman Manley, a 1954 graduate of the segregated Pine Street School in Conway, was accepted as the first black student at Arkansas State Teachers College (now University of Central Arkansas) in 1956.
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
Civil Rights; Women's Suffrage; Voting Rights; Women
New York Times article highlighting legal rulings across the country pertaining to women's suffrage and the 19th Amendment. The second paragraph pertains to the Arkansas Attorney General rejecting Dr. Ida Joe Brooks's candidacy for state office.
Bigotry; Racism; Ku Klux Klan; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
A rally by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, headquartered in Harrison, held on the steps of the Arkansas State Capitol to coincide with the NAACP's Juneteenth Celebration.
Ku Klux Klan; Bigotry; Racism; Little Rock (Ark.); National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Rally held by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, headquarterd in Harrison, on the steps of the Arkansas State Capitol to coincide with the NAACP's Juneteenth Celebration.
Circular appearing in the Arkansas Gazette in July 1858, and signed by prominent men of the state regarding the evils of free persons of color and supporting their exclusion.
