Virgil T. Blossom papers 1952-1960.

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Virgil T. Blossom papers 1952-1960.

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Papers pertaining to Mr. Blossom's career as superintendent of the Little Rock public schools, 1953-1958, especially his role in the Central High crisis in 1957-58. Personal and professional correspondence, legal papers, opinion mail and writings of Virgil T. Blossom. Including a draft of his book manuscript It has happened here. Contains minutes of meetings of the Little Rock Board of Education. Materials contain information on Central High in general, on education, segregationist materials, and a visual presentation concerning the Central High crisis. Clippings arranged chronologically dealing personal interests, education and integration and civil rights.

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University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)

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Blossom, Virgil T.

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Virgil T. Blossom (1907-1965) was born in Brookfield, Missouri. He attended Missouri Valley College at Marshall on an athletic scholarship, majoring in education, completing his degree in 1930. After earning a Master of Science degree from the University of Arkansas and taking classes at Northwestern University in Chicago, he started teaching and coaching athletics in the high school at Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he married Clarrene Tribble in 1934. In 1935 he went to Okmulgee, Oklahoma, as t...