Supreme Court opinions had required the state-supported graduate schools of several other states to admit black students. The university, similar to most other Southern colleges and universities, traditionally had refused to admit African Americans as full-time students. They had six children.Īt this time, he also was involved in integrating the University of Arkansas School of Law. He married Lucille Elnora McKee in January 1948. Returning from military service, Branton became active in civil rights activities while operating the family business.
His wartime experience opened his eyes to the horror and madness of prejudice. He had three brothers and a sister.īranton was educated in the segregated schools of Pine Bluff and attended the local African-American college, Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal (now the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff), prior to being drafted into the U.S.
His mother was a schoolteacher in the segregated public schools prior to her marriage. His father and paternal grandfather owned and operated a taxicab business. Wiley Branton was born on December 13, 1923, in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County), the second child of Pauline Wiley and Leo Andrew Branton.
His work to end legal segregation and inequality in Arkansas and the nation was well known in his time. Wiley Austin Branton was a civil rights leader in Arkansas who helped desegregate the University of Arkansas School of Law and later filed suit against the Little Rock School Board in a case that went to the U.S.
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