Early Integration - University of Arkansas - Fayetteville AR
N 36° 04.213 W 094° 10.558
15S E 394105 N 3992376
This Marker is located along Maple Avenue on the north side of Silas Hunt Hall.
Waymark Code: WMVP6T
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 05/12/2017
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The University of Arkansas became the first major Southern public university to admit a black student without litigation when Silas Hunt of Texarkana, an African American veteran of World War II, was admitted to the University's law school in 1948. Roy Wilkins, administrator of the NAACP, wrote in 1950 that Arkansas was the "very first of the Southern states to accept the new trend without fighting a delaying action or attempting to . . . limit, if not nullify, bare compliance." Silas Hunt Hall, across from the law school, was dedicated in his honor as the student admissions center in 1993.
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