WEC Members Brewer, Terry, and House

Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools members Vivion L. Brewer, Adolphine Fletcher Terry, and Pat House (left to right); November 2, 1963.

Three women formally dressed wearing corsages smile pose together holding Arkansas plaque

Courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System

Media

Time Period

World War II through the Faubus Era (1941 - 1967)

Category

Education / Educational Issues and Controversies / School Segregation and Desegregation

Type

Group

Race & Ethnicity

White

Gender

Female

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