Velma and J.O. Powell collection 1958-1979.

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Velma and J.O. Powell collection 1958-1979.

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Papers pertaining to the Little Rock Central High School integration crisis (1957-1959) and the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC). Collection includes an account of the events by J.O. Powell, along with notes and correspondence to a nephew, Tim DeLaney. Photocopies of several other accounts: an unpublished book, The Embattled Ladies of Little Rock, by Vivion Lenon Brewer, one of the founders of WEC; an oral history interview of Brewer; a diary kept by Adolphine Fletcher Terry, another founder of WEC ; an account by Sara Alderman Murphy, later published as Breaking the Silence: Little Rock's Womens Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, 1958-1963; and other papers.

15 folders.

University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7415113

University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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Terry, Adolphine Fletcher, 1882-1976

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

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Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)

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Powell, Velma.

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Powell, J. Otis

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Brewer, Vivion Lenon, 1900-

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Co-founder, Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools; Volunteer; Banker; Lawyer. Vivion Lenon Brewer was born in Little Rock, Arkansas; graduated from Smith College in 1921; and received a law degree from Arkansas Law School in 1928. Rather than practice law, she continued to work in her father's bank and was made Vice President. She married Joseph Brewer in 1930, nephew of Senator Joseph T. Robinson, and they lived in Washington, D.C. until 1946 when they returne...

Murphy, Sara Alderman, 1924-1995

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