The Arkansas Council on Human Relations was organized in December 1954 and incorporated and staffed in 1955 as a voluntary non-profit, non-political organization. It was associated with the Southern Regional Council. The purpose of the ACHR was to seek improved human relations by working to secure equal opportunity for all people.

The collection consists of general and NAACP correspondence of Mrs. Bates; the correspondence of her husband, L. C. Bates from 1960 to 1974; correspondence, grant proposals, partial financial records and other materials relating to the Mitchellville OEO Self-Help Project, 1968-1980; memorabilia, honors and awards, photographs and newspaper clippings; and audio tape and film.

Xerox copy of typewritten transcripts of oral history interviews conducted, 1970-1972, by Columbia University's Oral History Research Office with the following persons involved in or associated with the events and issues, 1957-1959, centering around the U.S. district court ordered racial desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas: J. Bill Becker, Orval Eugene Faubus, Nathaniel Robadeau Griswold, Archie F. House, Elizabeth Huckaby, Robert A. Lile, Sidney Sanders McMath, etc.

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8 1/2 linear feet of materials created and collected by Caldwell, whose career with the United States Department of Justice (1941-1968) included positions as Chief of the Civil Rights Section and as assistant to the Assistant Attorney-General for the Civil Rights Division. Materials also relate to Japanese-American Internment and the "Freedom Train" exhibits.

Oral interviews and other recordings of participants in the Wounded Knee occupation collected by anthropologist and historian Clyde Dollar

The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, official documents, and academic papers on a related to the Quapaw who occupied the region of the confluence of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers.

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"More than 4000 manuscript collections are housed at the Arkansas History Commission. In part, they consist of the private and business papers of individuals as well as records of religious, educational, business, patriotic, social, and civic organizations. Also contained in the holdings are state and federal records and governors' papers."