Collection Focus: FBI Little Rock School Crisis Report Included in the materials digitized for the grant project is the FBI Little Rock School Crisis Report. This collection contains the interviews and investigations conducted by the FBI during the Little Rock…
Collection Focus: Judge Harry J. Lemley Papers
Collection Focus: Judge Harry J. Lemley Papers Harry J. Lemley was born August 6, 1883, in Upperville, Virginia. He attended Randolph Macon Academy and the University of Virginia before receiving his law degree from Washington and Lee University in 1910.…
Meet the virtual exhibit coordinator
Meet the Virtual Exhibit Coordinator My name is Jared Craig and I am the virtual exhibit coordinator for “The Road from Hell is Paved with Little Rocks” made possible by a grant from the Digitizing Hidden Collections Initiative, sponsored by the…
Collection Focus: Bishop Robert R. Brown Letters
Collection Focus: Bishop Robert R. Brown Letters Bishop Robert R. Brown was a civil rights advocate. He served as a trustee of the American Church Institute for Negroes, an organization charged with the coordination of Church-affiliated schools established to educate…
Collection Focus: Elizabeth Huckaby Papers
Collection Focus: Elizabeth Huckaby Papers Elizabeth P. Huckaby was born April 14, 1905 in Hamburg, Ashley County, Arkansas. Her family moved to Texas for several years during her childhood, but she graduated from high school in Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas.…
Collection Focus: The Office of Desegregation Monitoring Records
Collection Focus: The Office of Desegregation Monitoring Records The Office of Desegregation Monitoring (ODM) was a federal office created by the Eighth Circuit Court and charged with the duty of monitoring and assisting Pulaski County’s three school districts – Little Rock School District (LRSD), North Little Rock School District (NLRSD),…
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School From 1907 to 1929, Little Rock’s black students were educated at Gibbs High School. When Gibbs was partially destroyed by a fire, the Little Rock School Board chose to retain the building’s undamaged portion as…
Meet the project archivist
Meet the Project Archivist Hello, my name is Danielle Butler, and I was hired as the project archivist for “The Road from Hell is Paved with Little Rocks,” made possible by a grant from the Digitizing Hidden Collections Initiative sponsored by…
Why this project?
Why this project? In September 1957 the nation and the world turned to Little Rock, Arkansas, when Governor Orval Faubus defied the U.S. Constitution and used the National Guard to prevent nine African American teenagers from attending segregated Central High…
Follow us as we create access
Follow Us As We Create Access Thanks to a $106,908.00 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this project brings together the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and…