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    The Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) was an organization formed by a group of socially prominent white women in the city of Little...
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    Adolphine Fletcher Terry (category American Association of University Women)
    the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) that was primarily responsible for reopening the Little Rock, Arkansas, public school system...
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  • agency Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, a political action group formed in response to the Little Rock Integration Crisis school closings...
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  • Vivion Brewer (category Little Rock Central High School alumni)
    founding member of the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) in 1958 during the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas...
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    the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools. Brownie Ledbetter (1950)—Political activist and member of the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our...
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  • Sara Alderman Murphy (category Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni)
    Murphy joined the Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) after the attempt to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957. She was...
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    the Little Rock Nine Stand in the Schoolhouse Door Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (U.S. 1954), Text...
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    inaugural group of women, inducted on 27 August 2015, included 11 women and one organization, the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools and were selected...
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  • Brownie Ledbetter (category Little Rock Central High School alumni)
    Brewer in the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC), an advocacy group. After the WEC dissolved in 1963, Ledbetter went on to work with the...
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    Sara (1997). Breaking the Silence: The Little Rock Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, 1958–1963. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas...
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