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Minority History

Title Collection Number Description
Mary Caviness Papers M86-09 This collection contains Personal paper, correspondence, and business papers of a Hot Springs African American benefactress, 1895-1986
Maude H. Boen Papers M87-06 Mrs. Boen's worked in  the Japanese Relocation center at Jerome, Arkansas and this collection contains some of her memories from that experience in the form of correspondence, educational materials, photographs, and memorabilia, 1942-1945.

Arkansas VISTA Records

M88-11

This collection contains research materials and publishing information from Marvin Schwartz, In Service to America: A History of Vista in Arkansas, 1965-1985.

Gerald L. K. Smith Materials

M89-12

 The letter and The Cross and the Flat, both published by Carroll County minister, political organizer, and founder of the Passion Play in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
Terry A. Humble Papers M91-12 Terry Humble worked as both a principal and superintendent in Morrilton, Harrison, and Hot Springs, Arkansas.  This collection holds school records and court cases from these school, 1960-1988.
Frank Williamson Papers M92-05 Frank Williamson Collected material on Arkansas history including  the French and Spanish possession and the history of Jefferson county, 1541-1963.
Pine Bluff Women's Center Records M92-06 This organization formed in 1975 with the purpose of serving the needs of women in Jefferson county.  They also collected the oral interview of several women for their book, "Women Of The Arkansas Delta", 1976.
Erwin L. McDonald Papers M93-07 Erwin McDonald work as a preacher, journalist, and author pushing for racial  toleration after the Little Rock Central High crisis in 1957, 1922-1995.
Women's Project Records M95-03 This collection documents a women's organization that promotes women, minority, gay, and lesbian rights.  Suzanne Pharr also donated a good deal of material on her leadership of this organization and her fight for lesbian rights, 1980-present.
Osro Cobb Papers M96-11 Osro Cobb was a former State Representative; U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District during the 1957 Little Rock Central High Crisis; former State Chairman for the Republican party of Arkansas; Arkansas Supreme Court Judge; and oil business man, 1929-1980.

Waddy W. Moore Papers

M98-04

Mr. Moore established the UCA Oral History department and was instrumental in the creation the UCA Archives.  His Collection contains oral history, Conway school board meetings, business correspondence, and black history.
Evalyn King Papers M99-03 Evalyn King taught school all over the state of Arkansas including the Japanese relocation center in Rohwer.  Her collection also contains her family genealogy research.
African American Alumni Association (A. A. A. A.) M99-07 The African American Alumni Association collection contains photographs, newspaper articles, and information regarding the annual banquet and ball from 1998 to the present.
Governor Ben T. Laney Collection M99-15 Former Governor Ben Laney support states' rights as one of the leaders of the Dixiecrats movement.  His collection contains political papers correspondence, speeches, photographs, personal correspondence, campaign issues, U.S. savings bond sales during world War II, Civil Rights issues, and many other important topics, 1942-1970.
Shane C. Dunn Collection M02-07 This collection contains information regarding Franz Ziereis the Commander of Mathauson and an overseer of many German concentration camps.
Julie McDonald Papers M03 -02 The Julie McDonald papers concern the processing and signing of a bill to remove words relating to race from the 1907 Act that had originally created the Arkansas State Normal School.  It also holds awards given to the Echo from 1953-1962.

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