Arkansas Council on Human Relations #2

In 1954, the Atlanta-based civil rights organization the Southern Regional Council reorganized its local branches as Human Relations Council’s. During the desegregation of Little Rock’s schools, the Arkansas Council on Human Relations acted largely behind the scenes to help. When C. H. Yarrow of the American Friends Service Committee visited, he reported: “I found that the office was a center for mobilizing thinking people to come to the support of desegregation in the schools and for upholding the principles of law and order.” He added, “The Council has...ways of bringing constructive ideas to the attention of persons in authority in the government and to persons of influence and importance in the community…where communication can go on with freedom and equality between white and negro communities in Little Rock.”