Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools

Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC)
Formation1958
TypeCivil rights
HeadquartersLittle Rock, Arkansas, US
Membership1,400
Official language
English
President
Adolphine Fletcher Terry
Key people
Vivion Brewer, Velma Powell

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 Rock, Arkansas during the Little Rock Crisis in 1958. The organization advocated for the integration of the Little Rock public school system and was a major obstacle to Governor Orval Faubus's efforts to prevent racial integration. The women spoke out in favor of a special election to remove segregationists from the Little Rock school board.

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