Tag Archives: Little Rock
PRESS COLLECTION: “Riot in Little Rock” (1959)
PRESS COLLECTION: “Little Rock Arkansas Bombed House” (1960)
Little Rock Arkansas Bombed House Barricaded. Photo is dated as Feb 11,1960. It shows Home of Carlotta Walls.
Civil Rights: “This School Closed” (1958)
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, with students (l-r) Lannie Wilson, Darrell Young, Dickie Mahon, and Don Weir hovering around sign proclaiming “This school closed by order of the federal government”. 1958
FSA COLLECTION: Ben Shahn – “Colored Children” (1935)
Colored children of sharecroppers, Little Rock, Arkansas. Ben Shahn, October, 1935.
ARKANSAS COLLECTION: “Open Season” (1958)
Racist card declaring “open season” and providing home addresses of Daisy Bates, Harry Ashmore and Virgil Blossom.
ARKANSAS COLLECTION: “Conquer and Breed” (1958)
Anti-integration race rally at Arkansas State Capitol. Photographer: John T. Bledsoe