This series represents world-wide response to the Little Rock Central High integration crisis. Many items were sent by special mail, often marked "personal" or "confidential." Some correspondence was addressed to "school board" or "Central High principal;" many were forwarded to Virgil Blossom. A few individuals wrote repeatedly in reaction to events. Some envelopes contained only printed matter, sometimes with handwritten comments. The envelopes frequently had no return addresses, and often bore rubber-stamped slogans or stickers such as "Remember Little Rock," "Brotherhood by Bayonet!" or "I do not trade with those who advertise in the ARKANSAS GAZETTE!" Samples bearing such slogans and stickers were kept in the collection; most other envelopes were discarded.

Letters were usually in response to particular events or persons: following desegregation of Central High in the fall of 1957, white students walked out; persecution of the "Little Rock nine" led to the suspension or expulsion of several students; one of the "nine" who retaliated against the whites was expelled in February 1958. Articles about Little Rock in the national press provoked mail, as did the commencement exercises in June 1958 when Ernest Greene received his diploma. Some correspondents sent contributions to a campaign to fund a private, all-white school. Some letters pertained to the closing of the Little Rock public schools. Some reacted to an incident when Blossom reportedly threw two reporters out of his office.