The following content is provided as supplemental materials for the Arkansas State Archives Desegregation in Arkansas lesson plan.
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"Little Rock's Desegregation Plan," Arkansas Gazette, March 15, 1986
This newspaper article discusses how the Pulaski Special School District and Little Rock School District must propose a desegregation plan in order to obey the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling.
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"Arkansas Little Rock Schools Committed to Equality?" Arkansas Gazette, August 19, 1982
Interview with Civil Rights lawyer, John W. Walker, regarding desegregation of schools in the 1980s.
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Editorial, Arkansas Gazette, September 2, 1982
Newspaper editorial by Bettye M. Caldwell of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock criticizing some of John Walker's positions regarding desegregation.
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"Dual School System in Arkansas May Be Thing of the Past by '70," Northwest Arkansas Times, December 18, 1968
Article in the Northwest Arkansas Times about the state education commissioner claiming that there will be no more segregated schools by 1970.
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"Public Education in Arkansas, 1963 Still Separate and Still Unequal," The Bulletin, June 1964
Article explaining how desegregation has not taken place in most of Arkansas schools almost ten years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
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Lola Dunnavant's notes on the integration crisis
Lola Dunnavant
This is a single page of hand-written notes, recounting Lola Dunnavant's experience with the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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"Desegregation in the Nation's Capital, Christian Science Monitor," Jan. 3, 1959
Richard L. Strout
Editorial from the Christian Science Monitor explaining that Washington D.C. schools are re-segregating because of white flight and other reasons.
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“Little Rock Nine and Mrs. Bates To Receive Annual Spingarn Medal” Arkansas State Press, June 13, 1958
Article about Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine being honored and given the Spingarn Medal, an award from the NAACP for an outstanding achievement by an African American. The previous year the medal was given to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“’Little Rock Nine’ to Be Honored Sunday at Bethel” Arkansas State Press, January 24, 1958
Picture of the Little Rock Nine in 1958, as they were soon to be given the Americanism Award presented by the American Veterans Committee at the Bethel AME church on Ninth and Broadway in Little Rock. Article about the award and AVC.
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"Copy to the State Press, Arkansas State Press," October 11, 1957
Editorial from the Arkansas State Press criticizing Orval Faubus' actions during the Central High Crisis.
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"Editorials, Arkansas State Press," November 4, 1957
A collection of editorials from across the United States praising the courage of the Little Rock Nine.
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"Negroes Busy at Study as Curtains Descend on 8 Weeks," Arkansas State Press, November 15, 1957
Newspaper article about the challenges that the Little Rock Nine faced as students at Little Rock Central High School.
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"Judge Upholds Hoxie School on Integration" Arkansas State Press, January 13, 1956
Article about the result of the court case from the Hoxie school integration. The ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court nullified Arkansas’s segregation laws and said that the Hoxie school district had to integrate their schools, otherwise they would have been subject to criminal or civil action in federal courts.
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"150 At Hoxie Okay Boycott of Schools," Imboden Journal, August 4, 1955
This newspaper article discusses a group that was boycotting Hoxie schools after the school was integrated.
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The Direct Challenge of the Constitutionality of Segregation in the Public Schools and the School Decision by the U.S. Supreme Court
A description of the issues involved in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas case.
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"Segregation Issue Faces 'Generation of Litigation,'" Blytheville Courier News, June 29, 1954
This newspaper article predicts that desegregation would take several generations to be accomplished.
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"Some Arkansas Schools May End Segregation Before Being Forced," Arkansas Democrat, May 19, 1954
Newspaper article about the voluntary desegregation of some Arkansas schools following the Supreme ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. It also examines the issues regarding desegregation.
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"The Larger Problem of Public Education," Arkansas Gazette, May 20, 1954
Editorial in the Arkansas Gazette predicting that the challenge in desegregating schools will be ensuring all schools are funded equally.
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"The Pattern of the Future," Arkansas Gazette, May 18, 1954
Editorial in the Arkansas Gazette urging both the white community and the black community to cooperate in the process of desegregating Arkansas schools.
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"Arkansas Laws Are Challenged in Test Case," Northwest Arkansas Times, February 18, 1952
This newspaper article discusses lawsuits challenging segregation in Arkansas.
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"Equal Negro, White Education Facilities State's Big Problem," Blytheville Courier News, August 18, 1952
This newspaper article discusses attempts to make segregated schools equal in the state of Arkansas.
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"A Jump Ahead or A Jump Behind?" Arkansas State Press, July 15, 1949
Editorial in the Arkansas State Press about a Federal judge's ruling requiring DeWitt to fund African American schools equally to white schools.
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"Education and Segregation," Camden News, May 13, 1949
Editorial in the Camden News explaining how the issue of segregation has been used in politics and arguing for federal aid in education.
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"Improved Negro Schools Ordered," Blytheville Courier News, July 8, 1949
This newspaper article describes a court ruling that African American schools are not being treated equally to white schools, and orders that the DeWitt Special School District provide "substantially equal" facilities for African American students.