WEC Meeting

Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) meeting in Little Rock (Pulaski County); September 1958.

Large group of white women sitting in rows of chairs

Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Media

Time Period

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

Category

Civil Rights and Social Change / Education / Educational Issues and Controversies / Race / School Desegregation / School Segregation and Desegregation

Race & Ethnicity

White

Gender

Female

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