- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- Letter to Little Rock School Board Opposing Integration of Little Rock Junior College
- Publisher:
- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1958
- Subject:
- African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas - People:
- Donaghey, George Washington
- Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- documents (object genre)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Undated letter from Finos Phillips to the members of the Little Rock School Board expressing his opposition to black students attending Little Rock Junior College.
Integration -- Segregation -- Education -- Little Rock (Ark.) Junior College -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
FINOS PHILLIPS R.C. Allen Business Machines AUTHORIZED SALES AND SERVICE 117 Louisiana Street Little Rock, Ark. Phone 9021 Little Rock School Board 7th & Louisana st., Little Rock, Ark. Gentlemen: I wish to take this opportunity to express to you my opposition to permiting any Negro student to be allowed now, or at any time in the Future, in Little Rock Junior College; this is a white instutitution, and let us keep it that way. Governor, Donaghey, was a personal friend of mine, and we have at different times talked about this School, which, he and Mrs. Donaghey was so much interested in creating. It was his one great purpose to have the young white Boys and Girls have an opportunity to get their first two years of College, here in Little Rock ; he said and to this I agreed with him, that too many of our young people were leaving here to take these two years, and in many instances they never finished. If this happned in some other vacinity, they were in most instances lost to Little Rock, and that he thought we needed these with as many other who did finish College , here to help build our own City and State . His wisdom has been well proven, and in those days he gave no thought to the higher degrees; in fact if it should be extended to a full four years ever entered in-to his mind , he never mentioned it to me. This School has an important place in the life of Little Ro ck and Arkansas , and let keep it white . CC-Donaghey Foundation Gazette Democrat Yours very truly, [signature] FINOS PHILLIPS ADDING AND BOOKKEEPING MACHINES, CASH REGISTERS, TYPEWRITERS - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/1387
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:1387/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
- Rights:
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