Vivion Brewer

Vivion L. Brewer, co-founder of the Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC), which sought to open the Little Rock (Pulaski County) schools after their closure by voters in 1958 to prevent desegregation; early 1950s.

White woman formally dressed smiling in earrings pearl necklace brooch ribbon bracelet holding gloves fur

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