- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- Letter from William Cooper to Daisy Bates
- Publisher:
- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1955-08-03
- Subject:
- African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Letter from William G. Cooper, Little Rock Board of Education, to Mrs. L.C. (Daisy) Bates rejecting immediate integration
Integration -- African-Americans -- Blacks -- Little Rock Central High School -- Little Rock (Ark.) -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
August 3, 1955 Mrs. L. C. Bates President Arkansas N.A.A.C.P. 806 West 9th Street Little Rock, Arkansas Dear Mrs. Bates: The Little Rock Board of Education has carefully considered your request for inte- gration of the Little Rock Public School beginning in September 1955. After a careful consideration of all factors involved, your Board of Education will continue with its previously explained plan of integration, which will begin at the time of completion of the third high school. It is our considered judgement that this plan represents the wisest course for all concerned. Sincerely yours, __________________________ William G. Cooper, Jr. President, Little Rock Board of Education - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/1355
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
- Rights:
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