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School integration -- Arkansas -- Little Rock

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Arkansas Council on Human Relations Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS Ar4 ACHR
Scope and Content Note

The records pertain to the creation, organization, and functioning of the Council, and to the activities and interests of its officers, directors, staff, membership, supporters and opponents in regard to race relations in Arkansas. They include office files and sound recordings.

Dates: 1954-1968
Found in: Special Collections Department / Arkansas Council on Human Relations Records

Arkansas Educational Television Network "As We See It..." Videotapes

 Collection
Identifier: MS Ar4e AETN 377
Scope and Contents

Television film, "As We See It...," produced by WWTW/Chicago Public Television Station in May 1978, for Public Broadcasting System series of 24 half-hour programs on school desegregation. Part I, on Hope High School, Hope Ark., shown by AETN Feb. 16, 1980; another segment, on Little Rock's Central High School, shown by AETN May 25, 1980. 2 U-matic videotapes, without soundtracks.

Dates: 1978
Found in: Special Collections Department / Arkansas Educational Television Network "As We See It..." Videotapes

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 / Daisy Bates Papers

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
Found in: Special Collections Department / Melba Pattillo Beals Papers

Virgil T. Blossom Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1364
Scope and Content Note Papers pertaining to Virgil T. Blossom's career as Superintendent of the Little Rock Public Schools, 1953-1958, especially his role in the desegregation crisis in 1957-58. The papers pertain to the Central High crisis. Blossom became a central figure in the controversy, and he was removed as superintendent in November 1958. He wrote an account of the crisis, published as a series of articles, "The Untold Story of Little Rock," in Saturday Evening Post (May 23 - June 27, 1959) and...
Dates: 1952-1960
Found in: Special Collections Department / Virgil T. Blossom Papers

Colbert S. Cartwright Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1026
Scope and Content Note

Scrapbooks pertain to Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) minister Colbert S. Cartwright's involvement with race relations in Little Rock (Pulaski County), and particularly to the Little Rock Central High Integration Crisis.

Dates: 1954-1963
Found in: Special Collections Department / Colbert S. Cartwright Scrapbooks

Robert R. Douglas Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1472
Scope and Contents The collection contains the personal and professional papers of journalist and educator Robert R. Douglas; the bulk of the materials relate to his work at the Arkansas Gazette, his work as Chair of the Journalism Department at the University of Arkansas, or to his interest and involvement in legal cases related to libel, defamation, and freedom of the press.Collection materials include correspondence, clippings, legal documents, writings by Douglas...
Dates: 1940-2001
Found in: Special Collections Department / Robert R. Douglas Papers

Paul and Ann Faris Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2612
Content Description The collection contains the photography, writings, and other personal and professional papers of Paul and Ann Faris. Series 1 contains personal and professional papers, including correspondence, biographical materials, and materials related to Paul Faris' work as a professor at Hendrix College. Series 2 contains research materials, photographs, drafts, and other materials related to Paul Faris' 1983 book Ozark Log Cabin Folks: The Way They...
Dates: circa 1933-2022
Found in: Special Collections Department / Paul and Ann Faris Papers

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 / Faubus Oral History Interview Project Materials

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 Papers

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
Found in: Special Collections Department / Frank N. Gordon Papers

Lawrence Brooks Hays Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS H334p
Scope and Content Note Correspondence, diaries, notes, literary manuscripts, reports, speeches, clippings, political campaign materials, academic records, business and legal documents, clippings, photographs, sound recordings and other materials pertaining to the life and career of Lawrence Brooks Hays, an Arkansas lawyer, politician, legislator, government official, educator, social worker, author, and civic and religious leader. Records, most of which date from 1915 to 1972, pertain to Hays'...
Dates: circa 1844-1978; Majority of material found within 1915-1972
Found in: Special Collections Department / Lawrence Brooks Hays Papers

Harlan Hobbs Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1356
Scope and Content Note The collection includes significant materials pertaining to celebrities such as Bob Burns, Chester Lauck, Gail Patrick, and others. Also, significant materials pertain to the relationship between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Kevin McCann. Materials pertaining to Dr. Thomas Dooley, famed for his volunteer work in Laos and co-founder of MEDICO, the Medical International Cooperation Organization, include items related to his visit to Winnetka, Illinois, in 1959, as well as efforts to...
Dates: 1926-2002
Found in: Special Collections Department / Harlan Hobbs Papers

Elizabeth Paisley Huckaby Records Pertaining to the Integration of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas

 Collection
Identifier: MC 428
Scope and Content Note The journals, correspondence, notes, school bulletins, memoranda, reports, interview transcripts, programs, school handbook, school directories and other material in this collection were created or collected by Mrs. Huckaby in the course of her administrative duties or as the result of her personal experiences during the academic year 1957-1958. The collection also contains two drafts, rough and revised, of Huckaby's book, Crisis At Central High: Little...
Dates: 1957-1963
Found in: Special Collections Department / Elizabeth Paisley Huckaby Records Pertaining to the Integration of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas

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
Found in: Special Collections Department / Elizabeth Jacoway Oral History Interviews

Betty E. Lile Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1455
Scope and Content Note

Papers pertain to the participation of Betty E. Lile's husband, R. A. Lile, in the events of the fall of 1957 when attempts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock resulted in deployment of Federal troops and a major crisis.

Dates: 1971-1997
Found in: Special Collections Department / Betty E. Lile Papers

Little Rock Central High Integration Crisis, Federal Bureau of Investigation Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1027
Scope and Content Note

The files are photocopies of serials 855, 933, 937, 971, and 990 from Bureau File No. 4412284. They pertain to contempt of court actions stemming from the integration crisis, and are composed mostly of interviews.

Dates: 1957
Found in: Special Collections Department / Little Rock Central High Integration Crisis, Federal Bureau of Investigation Records

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 / Little Rock Desegregation Crisis Oral History Interview Transcripts

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
Found in: Special Collections Department / Little Rock Racial Integration Collection

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 / Sarah Alderman Murphy Papers

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 / Larry Obsitnik Photo Archives

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: 1951-1998
Found in: Special Collections Department / Roy Reed Papers

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
Found in: Special Collections Department / Herbert L. Thomas, Sr. Papers

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
Found in: Special Collections Department / Velma and J. O. Powell Collection

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 / Thelma Mothershed Wair Papers

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