Land of (unequal) opportunity : documenting the civil rights struggle in Arkansas
Textual and visual materials relating to civil rights in Arkansas.
More About This Collection
Contributor to Resource
Arkansas History Commission
Date of Original
1835/2005
Subject
African American newspapers--Arkansas--Little Rock
African Americans--Arkansas
African Americans--Arkansas--Little Rock
African Americans--Civil rights--Arkansas--Little Rock
African Americans--Education--Arkansas--Little Rock
African Americans--Suffrage--Arkansas
Antisemitism--Arkansas
Boycotts--Arkansas
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
Civil rights demonstrations--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas--Little Rock
College integration--Arkansas
Communism--Arkansas
Concentration camps--Arkansas
Demonstrations--Arkansas
Discrimination
Discrimination in education--Law and legislation
Discrimination in education--Law and legislation--Arkansas
Equal rights amendment--United States
Federal-state controversies--Arkansas
Freedom Rides, 1961
Gay rights--Arkansas
Gays--Arkansas
Governors--Arkansas
Japanese Americans--Arkansas
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Jews--Arkansas
Judges--United States
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Ouachita Baptist College
Presidents--United States
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Race relations
Racism--Arkansas
School integration--Arkansas
School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock
School integration--Massive resistance movement--Arkansas--Little Rock
Segregation in education--Arkansas
Segregation in education--Arkansas--Little Rock
Segregation in education--Law and legislation
Segregation--Arkansas
Segregationists--Arkansas
Soldiers--United States
States' rights (American politics)
White Citizens councils--Arkansas
Women's rights--United States
Race riots--Arkansas
People
Hays, Brooks
Bates, Daisy
Eckford, Elizabeth, 1942-
Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994
Eckford, Oscar, 1915-1980
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
Mann, Woodrow Wilson, 1916-2002
Location
United States, Arkansas, Carroll County, 36.34102, -93.53818
United States, Arkansas, Carroll County, Eureka Springs, 36.40118, -93.73797
United States, Arkansas, Jefferson County, 34.26879, -91.93151
United States, Arkansas, Jefferson County, Pine Bluff, 34.22843, -92.0032
United States, Arkansas, Phillips County, 34.42829, -90.84802
United States, Arkansas, Phillips County, Elaine, 34.30844, -90.85205
United States, Arkansas, Poinsett County, 35.57404, -90.66293
United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County, Little Rock, 34.74648, -92.28959
Medium
instructional materials
letters (correspondence)
advertisements
telegrams
lists (document genres)
photographs
black-and-white photographs
articles
visual works
texts (document genres)
legislative records
press releases
legislative acts
fliers (printed matter)
brochures
lesson plans
posters
Type
StillImage, Text
Description
Online collection of digital materials related to civil rights in Arkansas. Materials include documents, articles, letters, advertising, and photographs. Topics range from early civil rights legislation, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, work for the rights of women and the rights of homosexuals, opposition by the Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens' Councils, the 1957 Little Rock Central High School integration crisis, integration of the state's colleges and universities, the 1919 race riot in the town of Elaine, and civil rights demonstrations including local demonstrations and the 1961 Freedom Rides.
While the great bulk of the materials maintained on the civil rights Web site is held by the UA Libraries Special Collections Department, other institutions around the state also contributed materials--including the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas Library System in Little Rock; the Riley-Hickingbotham Library at Ouachita Baptist University; Ottenheimer Library at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock; the Torreyson Library at the University of Central Arkansas; the Arkansas History Commission; and the Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives, Washington, Arkansas.
The site also contains a timeline of the history of Arkansas and civil rights efforts in the state, five posters on Civil Rights in Arkansas, and ten lesson plans designed for teachers of middle school students.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
Language
eng
Contributing Institution
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Ouachita Baptist University. Archives
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Torreyson Library
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