- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- Arkansas Resident Condemns Integration of the University of Arkansas
- Publisher:
- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1948-02-01
- Subject:
- African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Personal letter from Walter L. Lipscomb to Herbert Thomas opposing the admission of black students to the University of Arkansas.
Civil Rights -- Desegregation -- Racism -- African-Americans -- Blacks -- Fayetteville -- Washington
Conway, Arkansas February 1, 1948 Mr. Herbert Thomas Chairman, Board of Trustees University of Arkansas Fayetteville, Arkansas Dear Mr. Thomas: As an alumnus of the University of Arkansas, I am extremely bitter and violently opposed to the decision which the Board of Trustees and Dr. Luis Webster Jones have announced concern- ing the admittance of negro students to the university. It is true that educational facilities for negroes in Arkansas are pathetically inadequate, and I will heartely endorse the approvements and additions to the AM and N College at Pine Bluff to raise it, if need be, to graduate level, or the establishment of a regional negro university, which issue is to come before the Southern Governors' Convention. But for the present it is the responsibility of the Board of Trustees - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/804
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:804/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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