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Orval Eugene Faubus Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS F27 301 FAUBUS
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, diary, lists, notes, petitions, certificates, clippings, literary manuscripts, legislative bills, scrapbooks, sound recordings, motion picture film, financial, legal, military, and other records created, received, or collected by Faubus (1910-1978) or by staff members of the Arkansas gubernatorial office (1955-1967). Records pertain, for the most part, to the operations (1955-1967) of Arkansas state constitutional and other offices,...
Dates:
1910-1978; Majority of material found within 1939-1974
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Orval Eugene Faubus Interview
Collection
Identifier: MC 512
Scope and Content Note
Interview of Orval Eugene Faubus conducted by Jacquelyn R. George for credit in a political science course at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Topics discussed by Faubus include his administration's tax increases, accomplishments, and legacy. Brief synopsis of interview in accession file.
Dates:
1981
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Orval Eugene Faubus Papers Addendum
Collection
Identifier: MC 922
Scope and Content Note
This collection is essentially a continuation of the Orval Eugene Faubus Papers, 1910...(1939-74)-1978 (MS/F27/301/FAUBUS). Materials in this collection pertain primarily to the life of Orval Faubus following his six terms as governor of Arkansas. Included are items pertaining to his marriage to Elizabeth (Beth) Drake Thompson Westmoreland (1969); his adoption of her daughter, Kim Elizabeth, and son, Frederick ("Ric" or "Ricci") King (1971); Beth's death (1983); and his marriage to Janice...
Dates:
1928-1994
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Orval E. Faubus Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 467
Scope and Content Note
The papers document the tenure of Faubus as director of the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs, an assistance agency for veterans and their dependents. The collection is arranged in four series and consists of biographical information, employment correspondence, miscellaneous correspondence, and invitations and engagements. The bulk of the two series of correspondence consists of request from veterans seeking intervention by Faubus on their behalf and requests for interviews and...
Dates:
1981-1983
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Orval Eugene Faubus Files, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Collection
Identifier: MC 1324
Scope and Content Note
The FBI files pertain to Orval Eugene Faubus' controversial attendance at Commonwealth College, Mena, Arkansas in 1935; integration of Public Schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Governor Faubus' contempt of court; and two separate extortion investigations, 1958 and 1964.
Dates:
1954-1969
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Orval E. Faubus Speech (about Buffalo River)
Collection
Identifier: MC 1034
Scope and Content Note
Notes for speech (about Buffalo River) by Governor Orval E. Faubus, honored as Conservationist of the Year, National Wildlife/Sears Award Program, 1966, and printed program.
Dates:
1966
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Faubus Oral History Interview Project Materials
Collection
Identifier: MC 1762
Scope and Content Note
The Faubus Oral History Interview Project Materials contains notes, transcripts, newspaper clippings, photocopied reproductions of archival materials, and tape cassette recordings of interviews that were conducted as part of Tom Wagy's project. The materials are divided into three series and are arranged according to original order.
Dates:
1855-1999
Found in:
Special Collections Department
John Samuel Faubus Correspondence and Miscellaneous Records
Collection
Identifier: MS F27js 301
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and other records created or received by John Samuel Faubus. Records consist principally of correspondence, exchanged 1942-1966 with political leaders and with political sympathetic "Free-thinkers" and "Liberals," in expression of political opinions. Included are copies of Faubus' letters, many pseudonymous, addressed to editors of newspapers and intended for publication. Other records, pertaining to Orval E. Faubus, include war-time (1944-1945)...
Dates:
1913-1966
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Trey Berry Interviews
Collection
Identifier: MC 1508
Walter E. Rowland Faubus, Arkansas and Education Typescript
Collection
Identifier: MC 1109
Scope and Content Note
Typescript of Walter E. Rowland's book, Faubus, Arkansas and Education, published in 1989 by River Road Press, Conway, Arkansas. 302 pages.
Dates:
1989
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Albert King Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1683
Content Description
The collection consists of speeches, campaign materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and other materials, primarily regarding the Madison County, Arkansas political career of Albert King and reflecting King's involvement with Carl E. Bailey and Orval Faubus' gubernatorial campaigns.
Dates:
circa 1890-1983
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Little Rock Desegregation Crisis Oral History Interview Transcripts
Collection
Identifier: MS L72 310
Scope and Content Note
Xerox copy of typewritten transcripts of oral history interviews conducted, 1970-1972, by Columbia University's Oral History Research Office.
Dates:
1970-1973
Found in:
Special Collections Department
John F. Wells Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 791
Scope and Content Note
Series 1, Biographical Materials, includes samples of essays written by John Wells when attending the University of Arkansas in the early 1920s, newspaper essays written by Wells that were primarily autobiographical, newspaper clippings which feature Wells and his career as the subject, correspondence pertaining to Wells personally and the operation of his newspaper, and research materials for articles Wells planned to write or collected out of general interest. Series 2, Jovejoy Award...
Dates:
1923-1983
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Isabel France Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1407
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains professional, personal, and family correspondence. Correspondents include Booth Campbell, Orval Faubus, Walter J. Lemke, Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, Sid McMath, Vance Randolph, Otto E. Rayburn, and others. The collection further contains personal papers; photographs; newspaper clippings of France's column Hills of Home (ca 1936-1961) as well as its manuscript and typewritten form; newspaper clippings of her column Shepherds Springs (ca...
Dates:
1906-1963
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Randall B. Woods Interview Tapes
Collection
Identifier: MC 1410
Scope and Content Note
The collection includes eighty-two audiocassette tapes containing interviews conducted by Randall Woods with J. William Fulbright, Dale Bumpers, McGeorge Bundy, Orval Faubus, Allan Gilbert, Hoyt Purvis, Arthur Schlesinger, Dean Rusk, Lee Williams, and others as part of research for Woods' biography on Fulbright. The locations of the interviews include Fayetteville, AR; Washington, D.C.; and Bonn, Germany.
Dates:
1988-1996
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Arthur Brann Caldwell Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS C127 209 209A-F
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, memoranda, addresses, reports, photographs, printed materials, and other records created, received, or collected by Caldwell. Most items are dated in the period 1950-1970, Specific areas to which materials pertain include: University of Arkansas Glee Club, 1927-1928; Arkansas and national political affairs, ca. 1917-1974; Japanese-Americans in the U.S. armed forces and the U.S. War Relocation Authority relocation centers in World War II; civil rights legislation...
Dates:
1912-1975
Found in:
Special Collections Department
John Lewis Ferguson Literary Manuscript
Collection
Identifier: MS F381 384
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten preliminary draft of text of Ferguson's and James Harris Atkinson's subsequently published Historic Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas History Commission, 1966). In two irregularly paged loose-leaf volumes, with cover-titles "Historic Arkansas Units 1-5, Copy 2" (in TS copy) and "Historic Arkansas, Units 6-10" (in TS). Laid in at back of second volume are four loose-leaves of typewritten commentary on specific pages of text, with over-written...
Dates:
ca 1966
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Roy Reed Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1083
Scope and Content Note
The collection comprises personal, academic and professional/research records. The personal records consist mostly of correspondence and files pertaining to Reed’s studies at Harvard University. The academic records pertain to the classes taught by Reed, such as classroom lecture notes, syllabi, tests, newspaper and magazine articles, typescripts, and other classroom items created and collected by him. The professional/research records contain subject files that concern primarily Reed’s...
Dates:
1950-1998
Found in:
Special Collections Department
George Fisher Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1495
Abstract
Cartoons, art, correspondence, clippings, photographs, and artifacts from the life of George Fisher, a political cartoonist from Arkansas.
Dates:
1918-2003
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Sarah Alderman Murphy Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1321
Scope and Content Note
This collection is a combination of papers accumulated by Murphy during her years as an activist and materials used in writing her book. Among the latter are the papers of Billie Wilson, a former member of WEC. Wilson gave Murphy her papers, which included correspondence, pamphlets, and press clippings, to aid in the writing of Breaking the Silence. Because of the overlapping subject matter in Murphy's and Wilson's papers, Wilson's materials have been...
Dates:
1950-1994
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Hawn-Knight Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 756
Scope and Content Note
The papers in this collection have been divided into four series. Papers pertaining to Dr. Monroe Knight have been arranged in series one and consist of family correspondence and professional records. Series two contains papers pertaining to Alfred and Daisy Hawn. These papers include personal correspondence between husband, wife, friends, and relatives; poetry and essays written or collected by the Hawns; professional records relating to the operation of the ...
Dates:
1874-1956
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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
Sidney S. McMath Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 899
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains correspondence, law material, speeches, papers, photographs, tape recordings, awards, certificates, and clippings from McMath's political and military careers, as well as his personal life. The papers also contained broadsides, which have been removed to the broadside collection.
Dates:
circa 1880-1989
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Thelma Mothershed Wair Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1868
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains correspondence between the Little Rock Nine Scholarship Fund and individuals who worked to support the fund and correspondence between the Little Rock Nine Scholarship Fund and universities attended by the Little Rock Nine. The checkbook and check receipts included in Box 2 of the collection provide supplementary documentation of how the funds were distributed to the different academic institutions attended by the Little Rock Nine. The Thelma Mothershed Wair Papers...
Dates:
1958-2005
Found in:
Special Collections Department
Larry Obsitnik Photo Archives
Collection
Identifier: MC 1280
Scope and Content Note
Materials in this collection include almost 700 prints and more than 10,000 negatives. They include items spanning the entire length of Obsitnik's career as a photographer. One series features photographs taken while he was stationed in the Aleutian Islands. The collection includes approximately one hundred prints of prominent persons, including American presidents, Arkansas politicians, and celebrities; it contains a substantially larger number of negatives depicting these subjects. Several...
Dates:
1918-1984
Found in:
Special Collections Department