Little Rock (Ark.)
Subject
Subject Source: Naf
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
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 Also included in the collection are photocopies of several other accounts: an unpublished book, The Embattled Ladies of Little Rock, by Vivion Lenon Brewer, one of the founders of WEC;...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