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Mann, Woodrow Wilson, 1916-2002

Biography:

Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas during the integration of Central High School in 1957. Mann asked the federal government for assistance, and President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10730, sending units of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock and federalizing the Arkansas National Guard. These U.S. Army troops escorted the "Little Rock Nine," as they became known, into Central High School on September 25, 1957.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Civil Rights-- Little Rock School Integration (Dwight D. Eisenhower Library)
• Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century Information: Dwight D. Eisenhower (Dwight D. Eisenhower Library)
  • Telegram from Mayor of Little Rock, Woodrow Mann, to President Eisenhower (Telegrams)
  • Telegram from Mayor of Little Rock, Woodrow Mann, to President Eisenhower (Telegrams)

Educator Resources

• For Educators (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
  • The Civil Rights movement: First day of integration at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas; photo and first-hand account from Elizabeth Eckford's perspective (Instructional materials)
• Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries)