Women's Emergency Committee records, 1958-1963.

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Women's Emergency Committee records, 1958-1963.

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The Women's Emergency Committee collection includes correspondence, membership lists, information on other organizations interested in maintaining public schools, and other material relating particularly to the issues of public education, civil and voting rights, and the economic effect of the school crisis. Additionally, there are booklets, pamphlets, magazines, and newspapers concerning these important issues of the 1958-1963 time period.

8 cubic ft.

Arkansas History Commission, Department of Archives and History

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SNAC Resource ID: 6910760

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Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (Little Rock, Ark.)

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Women's Emergency Committee (Little Rock, Ark.)

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The Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools was formed in Sept. 1958. It was established in response to the closing of Little Rock's four public high schools by Gov. Orval Faubus. After the schools were reopened in Sept. 1959 the name was changed to the Women's Emergency Committee. The WEC was founded by a group of women led by Adolphine Fletcher Terry, a member of a prominent Little Rock family. Terry, Mrs. Vivion Brewer, and Mrs. J.O. Powell organized the first meeting which fifty-eigh...

Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994

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34th governor of Arkansas. Faubus was born in the Ozark Mountain community of Greasy Creek; taught school in rural communities (1928...1939); worked as an itinerant farm laborer and lumberjack (1931...1935); briefly attended Commonweath College, the radical labor school at Mena (Polk County) Arkansas (1935); was elected to two terms as Madison County Circuit Clerk and Recorder; served in the U.S. Army as an enlisted man and subsequently as a commissioned officer in Europe (1942-1946); was Huntsv...

McMath, Sid

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Hardin, Joel

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