- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- Letter to Wiley Branton
- Publisher:
- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1954-08-30
- Subject:
- African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas - People:
- Branton, Wiley Austin, 1923-1988
Crenshaw, J.C. - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- documents (object genre)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Letter from Virgil Blossom to Wiley Branton, chairman of the Legal Redress Committee of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP. The letter is in response to a petition regarding development of an early integration plan for Little Rock schools.
Integration -- Desegregation -- African-Americans -- Blacks -- Little Rock (Ark.) -- Virgil Blossom -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES LITTLE ROCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS 800 Louisiana Street LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS August 30, 1954 Mr. Wiley A. Branton, Chairman Legal Redress Committee, NAACP 119 East Barraque Street Pine Bluff, Arkansas Dear Sir: The Little Rock School Board has set the date of September 9th at 7:30 p.m. in the Board Rooms of the School Administration Building at 800 Louisiana Street, Little Rock, Arkansas as the time to hear you and your group in regard to your petition on desegregation under the date of your letter of August 21, 1954. Will you please advise me if this date is satisfactory to you and your group. Sincerely yours, VirgilT. Blossom Superintendent of Schools VTB:am CC: Mr. J.C. Crenchaw 702 W. 9yh Street Little Rock, Arkansas - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/1395
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:1395/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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Letter to Wiley Branton
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