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Civil rights -- Arkansas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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

Elizabeth Jacoway Oral History Interviews

 Collection — Box Small Manuscript Collections Box 9: [Barcode: 35129217141247]
Identifier: MC 1481
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of copies of the transcriptions of interviews she conducted with Daisy Gatson Bates and Vivion Lenon Brewer, two leaders of the effort to desegregate Central High School. N.B. The transcripts were copied from the Southern Historical Collection, the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and were given to the University of Arkansas Libraries by Ms. Jacoway.

Dates: 1976