Little Rock, Arkansas Lunch Counter Sit-ins Collection

Little Rock, Arkansas Lunch Counter Sit-ins Collection

1960-1964

The Lunch Counter Sit-ins Collection includes news articles, clippings and photographs that chronicle Philander Smith College students’ participation in the civil rights sit-ins that occurred in Little Rock, Arkansas from 1960 to 1964. The collection was donated by Veronica Nesbitt, a PSC Alumnus who was involved in the non-violent protests. The news articles and photographs were clipped from the Arkansas Democrat, the Arkansas Gazette and the Southern Mediator Journal. This collection also includes a term paper written by Beka Miles-Deloney (a former student of Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas) that documents the role that Veronica Nesbitt and other Philander Smith College students played in the lunch counter sit-ins during the 1960’s.

Civil rights demonstrations--Arkansas

African American college students

Civil rights movements

3 boxes, 20 folders

Box 1: Correspondence

1. 2008 - Gracie Carter (former PSC Librarian) to Rosie Dixon (Arkansas Democrat Gazette)| Letter from Veronica Nesbitt (PSC Alum) to Gracie Carter| CV Lady Veronica Nesbitt

Newspaper Articles

2. Forster, B., & Worthington, R. (1960, March 10). Negroes stage ‘Sitdown’ here; police haul off 5. Arkansas Democrat, p.1A, 2A. | These 5 Sitdowners arrested. (1960, March 10). Arkansas Democrat, p. 1A. | Arkansas ninth southern state with ‘Sitdowns.’ (2016, March 10, 1960). Arkansas Democrat, p. 1A. | Woolworth store was lone target. (1960, March 10). Arkansas Democrat, p. 1A. |‘Sitdowners’ talked with Daisy Bates. (1960, March 10). Arkansas Democrat, p. 1A. 
3. Lewis, B. (1960, March 11). Negroes attempt Little Rock Sidown; Five are arrested: Woolworth’s food counter visited by 50. Arkansas Gazette, p. 1A, 2A. State has 4 untried laws on trespass. (1960, March 11). Arkansas Gazette, p. 1A, 2A. Bennett hints Reds inspired store protest. (1960, March 11). Arkansas Gazette, p. 1A, 2A.
4. Sit-ins sprayed with gas by Amos Guthridge Group. (1962, November 16). Southern Mediator Journal, v. 25 (19).
5. Cases involving sit-ins dismissed. (1963, June 13).
6. Negroes mixing in town. (n. d.)
7. Wells, G. (n. d.). Officials defend civil rights votes. Arkansas cases added to civil rights gains.(n. d.). Civil Rights Act has wide scope. (n. d.).

Term Paper

8. Miles-Delony, B. (n. d.). Destroying barriers: The role of Philander Smith students in the Little Rock Sit-ins (Term Paper). Hendrix College, Conway, AR.

Photographs

9. March 16, 1960: Mclellan's (sitins_00001)
10. April 13, 1960: Dungan, R. Lunch counter sit-in students being held at Little Rock Police Headquarters. Arkansas Gazette (sitins_00002).
11. April 13, 1960: Dungan, R. Two Philander Smith College students are arrested for attempting to eat the Lunch Counter in Blass Department Store in Little Rock, Arkansas. ArkansasGazette(sitins_00003).
12. April 14, 1960: PSC students (sitins_00004).
13. November 20, 1960: Students from Philander Smith College at Little Rock, Methodist College for Negroes, sitting at food counter in Woolworths (sitins_00005).
14. November 7, 1962: Prescott, G. Sit-ins at Woolworths. Arkansas Gazette (sitins_00006).
15. November 7, 1962: Dungan, R. Sit-ins at Woolworths. Arkansas Gazette (sitins_00007-00010).
16. November 7, 1962: Prescott, G. Sit-ins at Woolworths, policeman Grover. Arkansas Gazette (sitins_00011).
17. November 28, 1962: Obsitnik, L. Walgreens sit-in demonstrators. Arkansas Gazette (sitins_00012-00013).
18. November 29, 1962: Miller, D. Sit-ins (standing at mike from left: Harold Anderson, Sam J. Ryker, Police Lt. B. A. Griffith). Arkansas Gazette (sitins_00015)(sitins_00014 undated).
19. November 30, 1960: Dungan, R. Little Rock police arresting students from Philander Smith College during Woolworth’s sit-ins. Arkansas Gazette (sitins_00016-00020).
20. Photocopies of Sit-ins photographs, 1960-1964.

Box 2 & 3

• Exhibit Materials

Veronica Nesbitt

Nesbitt, Veronica

Carter, Gracie

eng

Collection

1960-1964

This collection is available for viewing at D. W. Reynolds Library, Archives and Special Collections.

L. Stacey

L. Stacey

2016

09.SITS.2016.01

Donation by Veronica Nesbit

2008

D. W. Reynolds Library, Archives and Special Collections

ARC STOR 40C