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Undated letter from Finos Phillips to the members of the Little Rock School Board expressing his opposition to black students attending Little Rock Junior College. FINOS PHILLIPS R.C. Allen Business Machines AUTHORIZED SALES AND SERVICE 117 Louisiana Street Little Rock, Ark. Phone 9021 Little Rock School Board 7th & Louisana st., Little Rock, Ark. Gentlemen: I wish to take this opportunity to express to you my opposition to permiting any Negro student to be allowed now, or at any time in the Future, in Little Rock Junior College; this is a white instutitution, and let us keep it that way. Governor, Donaghey, was a personal friend of mine, and we have at different times talked about this School, which, he and Mrs. Donaghey was so much inter­ested in creating. It was his one great purpose to have the young white Boys and Girls have an opportunity to get their first two years of College, here in Little Rock ; he said and to this I agreed with him, that too many of our young people were leaving here to take these two years, and in many instances they never finished. If this happned in some other vacinity, they were in most instances lost to Little Rock, and that he thought we needed these with as many other who did finish College , here to help build our own City and State . His wisdom has been well proven, and in those days he gave no thought to the higher degrees;...

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Land of (Unequal) Opportunity

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