- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- Anti-Integration Flyer Issued by the Capital Citizens' Council
- Creator:
- Capital Citizens Council
- Publisher:
- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1959
- Subject:
- African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas - People:
- Taylor, Malcolm
- Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- documents (object genre)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- A flyer issued by the Capital Citizens' Council warning that school integration will lead to an increase in pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
Segregation -- Blacks -- African-Americans -- Bigotry -- Capital Citizens Council -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
DO WE WANT THIS KIND OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN ARKANSAS? Here is a part of the record of the Integrated Public Schools in Washington, D. C. - our nation's capital - covering the seven months period from September, 1957 through April, 1958. Source of information is report to Commissioners' Youth Council, District of Columbia, by Dr. John R. Pate, chief of District of Colum- bia Disease Control Bureau. Total Pregnacies Reported................185 Among Negro Girls..........................169 Among White Girls............................16 At age 12: 5 Girls, All Negro At Age 13: 22 Girls, 20 Negro, 2 White At age 14: 81 Girls, 74 Negro, 7 White At age 15: 77 Girls, 70 Negro, 7 White Of reported pregnacies, 129 involved girls in Junior High Schools, 44 in Senior High Schools, 7 in Vocational Schools, 4 in Elementary Schools. In the city of Washington, children are permitted to quit school at the age of 16 years. Many girls over 16 years of age quit school because of being pregnant with the cause of quitting not showing in the records. Veneral Disease Increase A report on veneral diseases for the 12 months ending June 30, 1958 reveals the following: Total Cases...........................................896 Among Girls.............630 Cases.........Among Boys..........266 Cases Whites 5 ...............Negros 625..........Whites 8...........Negroes 258 To those people in Arkansas who think they could accept integrated schools, we urge that you study the above facts. Is this the kind of schools you want your children to attend? Capital Citizens Council Malcom Taylor, President Paid Advertisement Arkansas Democrat, Jan. 26, 1959 - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/492
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:492/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
- Original Collection:
- Erwin L. McDonald Papers (MS 93-07), University of Central Arkansas Archives and Special Collections
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
- Rights:
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Anti-Integration Flyer Issued by the Capital Citizens' Council
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