- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- Women's Emergency Committee Flyer
- Creator:
- Women's Emergency Committee
- Publisher:
- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1959
- Subject:
- African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- documents (object genre)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Flyer issued by the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC). Gov. Orval Faubus closed the Little Rock public schools to avoid integration. Virginia closed schools as well, but reopened after the law was declared unconstitutional.
Women's Emergency Committee -- Women -- Integration -- Little Rock (Ark.) -- Education -- Little Rock -- Pulaski - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/238
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:238/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
- Original Collection:
- Arkansas History Commission, Jim Johnson Papers
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
- Rights:
-
Women's Emergency Committee Flyer
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