Hoxie is a city in Lawrence County, Arkansas, United States. It lies unexpectedly south of Walnut Ridge. The population was 2,780 at the 2010 census.

Prior to 1955, Hoxie maintained a dual system of education for younger students, one for white students and other one for black students. Rather than preserve two tall schools, white high school students were educated locally, while black high school students were bused to a black instructor in Jonesboro. The negro studious for grades 1-8 had by yourself one teacher. On June 25, 1955, in nod to the recent Brown v. Board of Education ruling, Hoxie’s superintendent, Kunkel Edward Vance, spearheaded plans to fuse the schools, and he acknowledged the unanimous hold of Hoxie’s studious board. On July 11, 1955, Hoxie schools recommenced and allowed African American students to attend. In order to do “what was morally right in the sight of God” and to “uphold the do its stuff of the land”, Vance insisted that all facilities, including restrooms and cafeterias, be integrated.

Although there were many agitated parents, the schools opening upon July 11 went smoothly. The teachers and children got along fine, but unlike the two other theoretical districts in Arkansas (Charleston and Fayetteville) that implemented partial integration, Hoxie attracted national attention. A team of photographers from Life Magazine was upon hand to document the event. After the revelation of the Life article, segregationists from outside the Place converged upon Hoxie in an unsuccessful attempt to reverse the researcher board decision. Handbills were printed making wild assertions including allegations of a Plan between negroes, Communists, and Jews, and advocating for the death of “Race Mixers”. A society of local citizens, led by soybean farmer Herbert Brewer, confronted the assistant professor board in an unsuccessful meeting. After the meeting, Brewer organized a White Citizen’s Council, which called for students, both black and white to boycott the schools. Approximately one third of the white students refused to attend the schools beginning upon August 4, 1955.

A lawyer, Amis Guthridge, the leader of White America, inc., attempted to pull more outside have an effect on into the fray, inflaming passions later than statements such as calling theoretical integration a “plan that was founded in Moscow in 1924 to mongrelize the white race in America” and claimed that “white Methodist women” wanted integration therefore they could get negro men into their bedroom. Johnson, Guthridge and others fanned the flames, and were united by Orval Faubus in bothersome to invoke fears of miscegenation in white husbands and parents. In one rally, a speaker shouted “they get not desire equality, you know they don’t desire equality”…”They want what you’ve got, they want your women!”