Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "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.The organization was co-founded by Adolphine Fletcher Terry, Vivion Brewer, and Velma Powell."@en }
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- Womens_Emergency_Committee_to_Open_Our_Schools abstract "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.The organization was co-founded by Adolphine Fletcher Terry, Vivion Brewer, and Velma Powell.".