July 25, 1976

Adolphine Fletcher Terry died in Little Rock (Pulaski County). Terry was a civic-minded woman from a prominent family who worked to improve schools and libraries and fought sexism and racism in the Old South. She was a leader of the Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC), which sought the re-opening of Little Rock’s high schools following the decision of Governor Orval Faubus to close them for the 1958–59 school year rather than integrate them.