- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- Response to Rev. Wesley Pruden's Segregationist Demands
- Publisher:
- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1957-07-26
- Subject:
- African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas - People:
- Pruden, Wesley, Sr., 1908-1979
- Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Letter from Virgil Blossom to Baptist minister and segregationist leader Wesley Pruden answering several questions arising from integration of students at Central High School.
Integration -- Desegregation -- African-Americans -- Blacks -- Little Rock Central High School -- Little Rock (Ark.) -- Bigotry -- Race-Mixing -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
- 3 - Rev. Wesley Pruden July 26, 1957 Question 7: "If the court shoud rule that negroes can force their way into the social lives of our children, would the School Board and Superintendent aid and abet the negroes in this matter, or would they stand behind the white people?" Answer: It is unwise to make projections on matters which do not exist. (Social functions which would involve race mixing will not be held.) We believe these answers to be both sensible and honest, and earnestly solicit your co-operation and help in this difficult problem. Sincerely yours, Virgil T. Blossom Superintendent of Schools VTB:mw cc: Arkansas Democrat cc: Arkansas Gazette - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/1655
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:1655/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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Response to Rev. Wesley Pruden's Segregationist Demands
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