UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture
Women’s Emergency Committee memo, pages 1-5 Women's Emergency Committee memo, page 1 Image 1 of 5 A memo of the Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, October 1957. Little Rock School Crisis Collection, 1957-1965 (UALR.MS.0170) Date: 1957 Physical Format:…
Speeches, excerpts, and bulletins by ministers and laypeople, pages 24-26 Speeches, excerpts, and bulletins by ministers and laypeople, page 24 Image 1 of 3 “The Arkansas Citizens for Orderly Compliance – Constitution,” April 6, 1956. In “Speeches, excerpts, and bulletins…
Florence Brown Cotnam correspondence with League of Women Voters; Letter from the Chairman to Louis Wynn Date: 1920 Physical Format: document See this item’s catalog record https://cdm15728.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15728coll3/id/16636 More from this collection Florence Brown Cotnam Collection, 1916-1932 (UALR.MS.0160) Exercises that feature…
Florence Cotnam Brown correspondence with Arkansas Equal Suffrage Committee; Letter from Emmet Vaughn to Arkansas Equal Suffrage Central Committee Date: 1919 Physical Format: document See this item’s catalog record https://cdm15728.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15728coll3/id/16663 More from this collection Florence Brown Cotnam Collection, 1916-1932 (UALR.MS.0160)…
Women’s suffrage valentine Date: Physical Format: photographic prints 5 x 7 in. black and white See this item’s catalog record https://cdm15728.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15728coll1/id/1326/rec/1 More from this collection Bernie Babcock Photograph Collection, ca. 1860-1956 (UALR.PH.0060) Exercises that feature this item “Love Me, Love…
1911 Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Arkansas minutes and yearbook Date: 1911 Physical Format: document See this item’s catalog record https://cdm15728.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15728coll3/id/26764 More from this collection Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Collection (UALR.MS.0086) Exercises that feature this item Making a Difference
Women’s Emergency Committee Theme: Government and Civil Society Grade Levels: 7-8 9-12 Time Period: 1957 Introduction In 1955, following Brown v. Board of Education, the Little Rock school board accepted a plan of gradual integration presented by superintendent Virgil Blossom. According to…
Civil Society and Law Theme: Government and Civil Society Grade Levels: 7-8 9-12 Time Period: 1956 Introduction In 1954, nearly a century after the formal abolition of slavery in the United States, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, one…
Educated Citizenship Theme: Government and Civil Society Grade Levels: 7-8 9-12 Time Period: 1920 Introduction The first serious attempt to grant Arkansas women the right to vote emerged shortly after the Civil War, when Miles Ledford Langley of Arkadelphia proposed at…
Fighting for Women’s Voting Rights Theme: Government and Civil Society Grade Levels: 7-8 9-12 Time Period: 1919 Introduction The first serious attempt to grant women in Arkansas the right to vote emerged shortly after the Civil War when Miles Ledford…
“Love Me, Love My Vote” Theme: Government and Civil Society Grade Levels: 5-6 7-8 K-4 Time Period: 1900-1925 Introduction Before the United States became an independent state, only selected individuals in the colonies had the right to participate in the…
Making a Difference Theme: Government and Civil Society Grade Levels: 7-8 9-12 Time Period: 1911 Introduction The Progressive Era in US history, or the period between the 1890s and ca. 1920, was characterized by an unprecedented rise of social reform…