- Collection:
- Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Finding Aids Collection
- Title:
- LaVerne Bell-Tolliver papers on The First Twenty-Five: An Oral History of the Desegregation of Little Rock's Public Junior High Schools
- Publisher:
- Little Rock, Ark. : University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture
- Date of Original:
- 1961/2015
2014/2015 - Subject:
- African Americans--Segregation--Arkansas--Little Rock
African Americans--Segregation
Education--Arkansas--Little Rock
School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock
African Americans--Education (Secondary)--Arkansas--Little Rock
African Americans--Education (Secondary)--Arkansas - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- finding aids
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This collection consists chiefly of oral history interviews conducted in 2014 by Dr. LaVerne Bell-Tolliver for her book, The First Twenty-Five: An Oral History of the Desegregation of Little Rock's Public Junior High Schools. This book documents the city's desegregation of Little Rock's all-white five middle schools, which included East Side, Forest Heights, Pulaski Heights, Southwest, and West Side, in 1961 and 1962. An initial twenty-five Black students were selected to desegregate the junior high schools, of which 18 were interviewed by Dr. LaVerne Bell-Tolliver (circa 1967 and undated). The collection includes electronic mp4 copies and digital videocassettes of the interviews, as well as electronic transcripts. Also included in the collection are photocopies of yearbook photographs of Black students from Central High School as well as 1961 newspaper clippings concerning desegregation in Little Rock.
LaVerne Bell-Tolliver papers on The First Twenty-Five: An Oral History of the Desegregation of Little Rock's Public Junior High Schools - Metadata URL:
- http://arstudies.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/findingaids/id/11395
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- LaVerne Bell-Tolliver papers on The First Twenty-Five, 1961-2015 (UALR.MS.0285)
- Contributing Institution:
- Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
- Rights:
-
