Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Daisy Bates Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 582
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of twelve boxes of correspondence and other documents, photographs, audio cassettes, and film. The files include correspondence resulting from her work and that of her husband, L.C. Bates, with the NAACP between 1957 and 1974. Significant correspondents include Harry Ashmore, Dale Bumpers, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Orval Faubus, and Roy Wilkins. An index of correspondents is located at the end of this finding aid. Other materials in the collection include honors and...
Dates:
1940-1988
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Daisy Bates Papers
Velma and J. O. Powell Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC 1367
Scope and Content Note
Papers pertaining to the Little Rock Central High School integration crisis (1957-1959) and the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC). The collection includes an account of the events by J. O. Powell, along with notes and correspondence to a nephew, Tim DeLaney. Also included in the collection are photocopies of several other accounts: an unpublished book, The Embattled Ladies of Little Rock, by Vivion Lenon Brewer, one of the founders of WEC;...
Dates:
ca 1958-1979