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Little Rock (Ark.) -- Race relations

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 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

Melba Pattillo Beals Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1795
Scope and Content Note The collection consists of letters, photographs, magazines, newspaper and other publication clippings, commemorative materials, and related materials regarding Melba Pattillo Beals and detailing the integration of Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957-1958. Also included are materials associated with Beals’ book manuscript and publications titled Warriors Don’t Cry and White is a State of Mind. Family materials include correspondence and materials associated with Lois Pattillo, Melba...
Dates: 1957-2001

Frank N. Gordon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 232
Scope and Content Note The collection consists of Gordon's materials from the Arkansas Conference on Human Relations (founded in 1954), a descendant of the Southern Regional Council of Atlanta, founded a decade earlier. Gordon's papers from such related groups as the Greater Little Rock Conference on Religion and Human Relations and the Greater Little Rock Conference on Religion and Race are included, as are pertinent materials dealing with desegregation, economics, civil rights, and racial and religious...
Dates: 1954-1971

Little Rock Racial Integration Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2495
Content Description

Ephemera and correspondence related to segregation and racial issues in Little Rock, Arkansas around the time of the Little Rock Crisis. Collection includes an Urban League of Greater Little Rock brochure, "How Is Your Platform Appeal...White Speakers before Colored Audiences and Colored Speakers before White Audiences"; an anonymous supportive message mailed to Gov. Orval Faubus; and a political cartoon and a letter produced by the segregationist Capital Citizens' Council.

Dates: 1957-1958

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

Herbert L. Thomas, Sr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS T38
Scope and Contents

16 items relating to racial issues in Little Rock, and particularly to school integration.

Dates: 1958