- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- NAACP Defended by Daisy Bates
- Publisher:
- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1962-08-28
- Subject:
- African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas - People:
- Sutton, Ozell, 1925-2015
- Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Letter from Daisy Bates to attorney Wiley A. Branton discussing the need to coordinate desegreation through the NAACP.
Segregation -- Desegregation -- African-Americans -- Blacks -- Little Rock (Ark.) -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Arkansas Council on Human Relations -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
1207 West 28th Street Little Rock, Arkansas August 28, 1962 Mr. Wiley A. Branton, Esq. 5 Forsythe Street, N.W. Atlanta 3, Georgia Dear Mr. Branton: Shortly afte I arrived home, June 13, 1962, I was contacted by some of the parents who were interested in enrolling their children in the elementary schools here this fall. I had read the statement in the press stating that the Little Rock School Board had said that it did not plan to integrate the elementary schools at this time. I also had read a subsequent release in the press quoting you, in effect, that you would take court action. Based on the statement quoting you, I assured the parents that action would be taken immediately. During this time, I was also contacted by some of the students who had been denied transferes for the Horace Mann high school to the in- tegrated high schools. They want to know if relief could be sought in their case. I contacted Attorney Harold B. Anderson who had represented many of the students who had been denied transfers before the school board. I asked for the names and addresses of the students and their parents in order to assure them that relief would be sought fo them. I was surprised when Mr. Anderson referred me to Mro. Ozell Sutton, co-director for the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, for the in- formation I was seeking. I was also surpriesed again when I spoke with you over the telephone last week, when you told me that Mr. Sutton was your contact man, and you had asked him to arrange a meeting with the parents. You know the groud-work for the case was laid in 1956 by the Lit- tle Rock branch NAACP. Members of the Executive Board of the Little Rock Branch -- many of then you know well -- Dr. Sarman P. Freeman, Dr. William Townsend, Rev- erend Mr. J.C. Crenchew and L.C. bates, counseled the origianl plain- tiffs and accompanied them when they attempred to enroll in the so-call ed white schools in 1956. When they were denied their parents sought re- lief from the local branch and the local branch appealed to the State - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/1515
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:1515/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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NAACP Defended by Daisy Bates
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