Women's Emergency Committee records. Supplement, 1959-1960 [microform].

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Women's Emergency Committee records. Supplement, 1959-1960 [microform].

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Three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings covering the years 1959-1960.

3 scrapbooks (on 1 reel of microfilm)

Arkansas History Commission, Department of Archives and History

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SNAC Resource ID: 7141303

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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...