Letter to Wiley Branton

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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
August 21, 1954 Mr. William G. Cooper President Little Rock School Board Little Rock, Arkansas Re: Petition on Desegregation Dear Sir: The enclosed Petition is a copy of the original Petition on file in my office and signed by the patrons of your school district. The Petition requests a hearing with your school board to discuss plans for desegregation in accordance with the Supreme Court's decision. The patrons of your community have requested the aid of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in working with the board and they have requested that Mr. J. C. Crenchaw, 702 West 9th Street, Little Rock, be notified of the date of the meeting on this Petition and that he be invited to be present. As Chairman of the Legal Redress Committee of the State Conference of Branches of the NAACP, I hereby re- quest a hearing before your school board on behalf of the patrons of your district and am asking that you notify meof the date of the hearing. I am hoping that your board will not adopt a "wait and see" attitude with reference to the Supreme Court de- cision and that they will want to earnestly make plans now to comply with the ruling as to the time and method of enforcement yet to be announced. Very truly yours, [signature enclosed] Wiley A. Branton, Chairman Legal Redress Committee, NAACP wab/lm Enclosures: 1 Copy to: Mr. Virgil T. Blossom
Metadata URL:: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/1396
IIIF manifest:: https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:1396/manifest.json
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Contributing Institution:: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
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