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Vivion Lenon Brewer Papers
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Contents List
SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
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(1958-91)
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Desk diaries,
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1959-60
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Box 1: folder 1
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Smith College: correspondence, honorary degree, newspaper clippings, and photograph,
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1960-61
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Box 1: folder 2
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Writings about VLB: article, correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, obituary, and profile,
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1961-91, n.d.
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Box 1: folder 3
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Family
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Harassment of JB by Veterans Administration: correspondence [including Senator J.W. Fulbright], exhibits, newspaper clippings, notes, and testimony,
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1958-61
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Box 1: folder 4
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Letters of rebuke and support from VLB's family ,
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1958-59
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Box 1: folder 5
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Memoir: The Embattled Ladies of Little Rock,
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1973
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Chapters 1-5
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Box 1: folder 6
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Chapters 6-8
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Box 1: folder 7
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Chapters 9-13
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Box 1: folder 8
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Appendices: biographies of founders, correspondence, crank leaflets, lists, newsletters, notes, publicity, speeches, and surveys,
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1958-60, 1973
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Box 1: folder 9
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Photographs
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Vivion and Joe Brewer,
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Aug 1959
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Box 1: folder 10
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Lew Irwin of ABC-TV News and Vivion Brewer, Pasadena, CA,
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21 Aug 1959
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Box 1
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Brewer home, Scott, Arkansas,
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n.d.
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Box 1
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Vivion Brewer, Adolphine Terry, and Pat House,
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1963
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Box 1
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Vivion Brewer, Velma Powell, Jo Jackson, and Adolphine Terry,
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1963
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Box 1
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SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE
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(1956-72)
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General
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1958
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Box 2: folder 1
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1959
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Box 2: folder 2
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1960
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Box 2: folder 3
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1961
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Box 2: folder 4
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1962-72
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Box 2: folder 5
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n.d.
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Box 2: folder 6
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Fan mail,
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1958-60, n.d.
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Box 2: folder 7
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Individual (alphabetical)
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Fulbright, J.W.,
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1956
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Box 2: folder 8
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Roosevelt, Eleanor,
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1959
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Box 2: folder 9
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Stevenson, Adlai,
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1959
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Box 2: folder 10
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SERIES III. ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
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(1957-69)
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American Association of University Women: agendas, newspaper clippings, policies, and statements,
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1959-60, n.d.
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Box 3: folder 1
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Arkansas Committee for Public Schools: correspondence, lists, memoranda, minutes, publicity, and statements,
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1959-61
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Box 3: folder 2
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Arkansas Council on Human Relations: correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, publicity, statement of purpose, and segregationist response,
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1958-64
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Box 3: folder 3
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Arkansas Gazette Pulitzer Prize Recognition Dinner: correspondence, invitation, lists, programs, seating plans, and telephone messages,
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1958
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Box 3: folder 4
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Community Unity conferences: correspondence, publicity, and reports,
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1960
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Box 3: folder 5
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League of Women Voters: campaign literature, questionnaires, and proposed national program,
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1960-62, n.d.
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Box 3: folder 6
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"Loretta Young Show": correspondence, newspaper clippings, profiles of W.E.C. leaders, publicity, speech, and typescripts,
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1959-61
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Box 3: folder 7
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Louisiana Save Our Schools movement: publicity and reports,
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1961
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Box 3: folder 8
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Project Happy Time: lists, publicity, typescript, and photographs,
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1968
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Box 3: folder 9
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Project Worthwhile: correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, photographs, publicity, reports, and student work,
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1967-68
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Box 3: folder 10-11
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Women's Emergency Committee To Open Our Schools
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History
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Organizing statements: drafts, notes, and typescript,
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1959-61
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Box 4: folder 1
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Newspaper clippings,
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1958-70
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Box 4: folder 2
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Organizational histories: lists, notes, speech, and typescripts,
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1959-69, n.d.
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Box 4: folder 3
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Interview with Vivion Brewer: cassette and reel-to-reel tape,
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11 Oct 1959
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Box 4: folder 4
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Administration
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Agendas,
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1958-59, n.d.
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Box 4: folder 5
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Committees: lists,
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circa 1958, n.d.
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Box 4
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Minutes,
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1958-60
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Box 4: folder 6
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Notes,
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1958-60, n.d.
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Box 4: folder 7
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Activities
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Campaign for support among ministers: lists, notes, and statements,
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1958-59
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Box 4: folder 8
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Workshop on Public Education: memoranda, notes, program, and publicity,
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1963
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Box 4: folder 9
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Correspondence,
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1958-61, n.d.
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Box 4: folder 10
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Financial documents: blank check, budgets, correspondence, invoices, lists, and notes,
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1958, n.d.
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Box 4: folder 11
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Publicity
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Leaflets,
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circa 1958
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Box 4: folder 12
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Mass mailings,
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1959-62
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Box 4: folder 13
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Newspaper advertisements,
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1958-59, n.d.
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Box 4: folder 14
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Newsletters,
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1959-63
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Box 4: folder 15
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Speeches: manuscripts, notes, transcripts, and typescripts,
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1959-60, n.d.
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Box 4: folder 16
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Surveys: drafts, newspaper clippings, reports, and summaries,
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1960, n.d.
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Box 4: folder 17
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Report: "Little Rock Report: The City, Its People, Its Business, 1957-59," compiled by the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools,
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Aug 1959
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Box 5: folder 1
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(1947-72)
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Arkansas elections
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Special school election: campaign literature, instructions, lists, polls, poster, publicity, transcripts, and typescript
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1958
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Box 6: folder 1
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Little Rock School Board elections: advertisements, lists, newspaper clippings, and notes,
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1958
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Box 6: folder 2
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Little Rock recall election: advertisements, button, leaflets, maps, newspaper clippings, notes, printed material, and typescripts,
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1959
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Box 6: folder 3
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Arkansas Democratic primary: advertisements, campaign literature, lists, notes, sample ballots, and newspaper clippings,
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1960
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Box 6: folder 4
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Constitutional Amendment 52 Election
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Newspaper clippings,
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1959-61
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Box 6: folder 5
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Publicity: campaign literature, lists, notes, printed material, reports, and typescripts,
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1960
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Box 6: folder 6
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Speeches: notes and transcripts,
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1960
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Box 6: folder 7
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"Workfolio" for County Committee Against Amendment 52: lists and printed material,
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1960
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Box 8
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Bond issue: correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, printed material,. publicity, and statements of opposition,
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1961, n.d.
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Box 8: folder 9
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Miscellaneous: lists, newspaper clippings, and printed material,
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1960, n.d.
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Box 8: folder 10
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Integration
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School integration controversies
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Alabama: newspaper clippings,
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1959-61
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Box 7: folder 1
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Arkansas
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Newspaper clippings
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Local,
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1956-63
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Box 7: folder 2-5
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National,
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1948-66
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Box 7: folder 6
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States' Rights Digest,
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1959-60
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Box 7: folder 7
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Study material,
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1957-72, n.d.
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Box 7: folder 8
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Florida: newspaper clippings, n.d
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Box 7: folder 9
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Georgia: newspaper clippings, reports, and typescripts,
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1959-61
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Box 7: folder 10
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Tennessee: newspaper clippings,
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1962
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Box 7: folder 11
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Virginia: newspaper clippings, notes, and press releases,
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1958-61, n.d.
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Box 7: folder 12
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Washington, D.C.: newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports,
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1957-59
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Box 7: folder 13
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Civil Rights movement and integration: newspaper clippings,
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1958-63
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Box 8: folder 1
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Pamphlets,
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1947-62, n.d.
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Box 8: folder 2-4
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Little Rock, AR
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History: newspaper clippings, notes, reports, and typescripts,
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1957-67
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Box 8: folder 5
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Businesses and segregation: report, resolution, and statement,
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1959, n.d.
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Box 8: folder 6
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Court decisions and legislation affecting Little Rock: briefs, lists, memoranda, newspaper clippings, notes, printed material, transcripts, and typescripts,
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1957-65
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Box 8: folder 7
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Desegregation proposals: lists and typescripts,
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1959-61, n.d.
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Box 8: folder 8
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Carl T. Rowan: biographies, correspondence, and clippings,
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1962, n.d.
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Box 8: folder 9
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Conference on Community Unity: report,
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1960
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Box 8: folder 10
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Newspaper clippings
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1958-59
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Box 9: folder 1
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Jan-Mar, 1960
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Box 9: folder 2
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Apr-Jun, 1960
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Box 9: folder 3
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Jul-Sep, 1960
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Box 9: folder 4
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Oct-Dec, 1960
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Box 9: folder 5
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1961-68
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Box 9: folder 6
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Case studies: correspondence, printed material, and typescripts,
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1957-61
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Box 9: folder 7
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Miscellaneous: lists, notes, and printed material,
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1958-68, n.d.
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Box 9: folder 8
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Segregationism
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Crank mail,
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1958-60, n.d.
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Box 10: folder 1
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Articles,
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1958-60, n.d.
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Box 10: folder 2
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Advertisements,
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1958-59, n.d.
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Box 10: folder 3
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Arkansas elections
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Little Rock recall election: advertisement,
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1959
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Flat File
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Arkansas Democratic primary: list,
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1960
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Flat File
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School desegregation controversies
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Arkansas
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Newspaper clippings
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National: Editorial cartoon by Clifford H. "Baldy" Baldowski, from Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, GA,
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November 21, 1958.
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Flat File
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Bates, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir. David McKay Company, Inc., New York.
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1962
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Blossom, Virgil T. It HAS Happened Here. Harper & Brothers, New York,.
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1959
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Brewer, Vivion Lenon. The Embattled Ladies of Little Rock, 1958-1963: The Struggle to Save Public Education at Central High, . [Browsing Collection]
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1999
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The Giants Wore White Gloves: The Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (written, produced, and directed by Saundra Hubbard, 2004)
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2004
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