- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- Statement by Virgil Blossom Regarding Integration
- Publisher:
- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1956-03-14
- Subject:
- African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas - People:
- Bates, Daisy
Crenshaw, J.C.
Darragh, Fred
Ashmore, Harry S.
Shropshire, Jackie L.
Williams, Thad - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- documents (object genre)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Statement of Virgil Blossom regarding Daisy Bates and the integration of Central High School in 1957.
Integration -- Blacks -- African-Americans -- Education -- Little Rock Central High School -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
- 4 - State Press, a negro paper. C.H. Jones is Editor of the Southern Mediator Journal, a competitor. She has called me a liar a half dozen times. [Jones Editorials favorable] Crenshaw always asked the question, "Why can't you integrate now?" He just says it can be done - You have so many kids and so many class rooms, etc. I have said "Yes," physically, but prac- tically, "No." They do not disagree with Mrs. Bates. The group which is around her is her own little liberal group and they think just like she does. This group wants us to integrate now. Fred Darragh, Harry Ashmore, Mrs. Ashmore - that is the Human Relations Group. (Ask why Little Rock lawyers not on Complaint and if, in fact, they do not disapprove of this proceeding.) - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/1720
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:1720/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
- Original Collection:
- University of Central Arkansas Archives and Special Collections, Richard C. Butler Papers (M 88-02)
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
- Rights:
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