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Elizabeth Paisley Huckaby

Records Pertaining to the Integration of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957-1963

Manuscript collection MC 428

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ELIZABETH PAISLEY HUCKABY

During the first year of integration at Central High School, 1957-1958, Huckaby devoted most of her time to administrative responsibilities. The journals, correspondence, notes, school bulletins, memoranda, reports, interview transcripts, programs, school handbook, school directories and other material in this collection were created or collected by Mrs. Huckaby in the course of her administrative duties or as the result of her personal experiences during the academic year 1957-1958.

THE COLLECTION

The collection also contains two drafts, rough and revised, of Huckaby's book, Crisis At Central High: Little Rock 1957-1958, published by the Louisiana State University Press in 1980.

Processed by Nan Ernst, October 1990. Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

CONTENTS OF COLLECTION (2 boxes)

Series 1. Personal Records, 1957-1958. Box 1.

Box 1

1. Journals, vol. 1, 1957; vol. 2, 1958.
2. Transcription from Journal re Integration at Central High School, July 17, 1957-June 3, 1958.
3. Letters to Bill, [TS transcript of letters and excerpts of letters to brother William M. Paisley of New York during the integration of Central High
4. Supportive Letters, (1957-1958, n.d.]
5. Letters critical of E.P. Huckaby, [1958].

Series 2. Records Pertaining to Teaching and Administrative Duties at Central High School, (1957-1958) ... 1963. Boxes 1-2.

Box 1 (cont.)

1. Fall 1957. [Notebook: class notes, seating charts, list of student assistants, etc.].
2. Daily Bulletins, Sept 3, 1957-Oct 31, 1957.
3. Daily Bulletins, Nov 1, 1957-Feb 28, 1958.
4. Daily Bulletins, Mar 3, 1958-May 26, 1958.

   Box 2

5. Attendance, 1957-1958. [Notes, memoranda, and correspondence].
6. Sign Outs, Sept 25, 1957. [MS list].
7. Excuses from Girls Showers, 1957-1958. [MS list].
8. Summary Report: Little Rock Scholarship Fund, Oct 19, 1957-May 14, 1963.
9. Pentangle Board Letter.
10. Programs for school activities, 1957-1958.
11. Photographs: Speaker's platform for Commencement exercises. 3 items.
12. Central High School Handbook. ca. 1957.
13. Central High School Student Directories, 1957-1958.
14. Personnel Directory, Little Rock Public Schools, 1957-1958.
15. Class schedules and notes concerning the black students enrolled at Central High School, 1957-1958.
16. "Removed from walls or picked up around Central." Segregationist literature, drawings notes, cards, etc., 1957-1958.
17. Notes concerning Incidents, 1957-1958.
18. Segregation Problem. Reports of student misconduct, 1957-1958.
19. Racial Incidents at Central High School, 1957-1958. (Summary of reports in file no. 18).
20. Notes on Integration, 1957-1962.
21. Miscellaneous. (Correspondence, Official Pass, Class schedules, library cards, notes, court summons etc. 1957-1958).
22. Statement of Mrs. G.T. Huckaby [Elizabeth Paisley Huckaby], Mar 10, 1958. [Statement taken by Sgt. L.E. Gwyn of the Arkansas State Police at Elizabeth Paisley Huckaby's home].
23. Questions to be used by Richard Butler at court hearing, June 3, 1958.
24. Supportive Literature.
25. Critical Literature.
26. Talk by Jess W. Matthews to Pre N.C.A. Conference at Pere Marquette State Park, Graften, Illinois, Mar 22, 1958.