Irene Gaston Samuel was born in Van Buren (Crawford County). Samuel was the executive secretary of the Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC), which arose in the fall of 1958 when Little Rock (Pulaski County) voted to close all of the city’s high schools rather than desegregate them. Samuel served as the organization’s executive secretary until it disbanded in 1963.
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