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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) LITTLE ROCK HIGH SCHOOL.
“If you want to keep
our schools segregated vote for removal of Lamb, Matson Tucker. Against
Removal of Laster, McKinley, Rowland. The Mother League. P.O.Box 3321 Little
Rock, Arkansas.” * DAISY has a little LAMB, Whose face is white as snow.
Everywhere that DAISY goes, LAMB, TUCKER and MATSON are sure to go.”
* Central High Reformatory, Brotherhood by Suspension! School of one blos-
som, and it’s a DAISY.
Small printed flyer, 5-6/8 x 4
1
⁄
4
inches; white card 2 x 3
1
⁄
2
inches,
and a small mimeographed piece of paper, the latter somewhat soiled.
Little Rock,
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Three very unusual survivals from the period of the integration of Little Rock High School by
Daisy Bates and others. One is an appeal to the parents of the all white student body to vote
for replacing the school board with people who would stand fast on segregation; another is a lit-
tle card, one of many circulated among the students that bore rhymes and jokes about Daisy
Bates, et al. and the third is an envelope in which one of these perhaps came. Provenance: a pri-
vate collection in Little Rock.
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(CIVIL RIGHTS—LYNCHING.) CARAWAY, HON. HATTIE W.
The Anti-
Lynching Bill. Speech of Hon. Hattie W. Caraway of Arkansas in the Senate of
the United States. January 13, 1938.
8 pages, 8vo. Creases where folded, together with
the original government mailing envelope.
Washington, D.C., 1938
[350/500]
Hattie Wyatt Caraway (1878-1950) was the first women elected to serve a full term as sena-
tor of the United States. Caraway’s husband Thadeus, Democratic senator from Arkansas
passed away in 1931. According to Arkansas tradition, his widow was allowed to finish out
his term. However, Ms Caraway ran in 1932 and with Huey Long’s help won her late hus-
band’s seat. This speech is quite interesting in that Ms. Caraway tells of her close relationship
with people of color in general and more specifically with her colored help. She seems to have
genuinely felt for the plight of people of color, but nonetheless joined the filibuster to defeat the
Anti-lynching Bill. It was not until the Civil Rights Act of 1968 that lynching was officially
declared to be illegal.
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