Front row are U.G. Dalton Jr., Jeremiah Robinson, M. Moore Jr. and T.X. Jones, 1940's. [graphic]. [194-]

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Front row are U.G. Dalton Jr., Jeremiah Robinson, M. Moore Jr. and T.X. Jones, 1940's. [graphic]. [194-]

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Negative taken of group portait of men by Adams Foto in Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas in the 1940s. Front row includes U.G. Dalton Jr., Jeremiah Robinson, editor of Negro spokesman; Malvin E. Moore Jr., Theodore X. Jones. Ulysses Grant Dalton, Jr. (b. Jan. 1897) was the son of Ulysses Grant Dalton Sr. (1868-1941) and Roberta Dalton (b. Jan. 1871 in Mississippi). Ulysses Grant Dalton, Sr. operated a cotton gin, which cost nearly $10,000, near Sherill, Jefferson County, Arkansas through 1918. Malvin E. Moore, Jr. was born April 28, 1918 to tailor Malvin E. Moore (1894-1972) and Mea Etta Pryor Moore in Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas. After graduating from the A.M. & N. high school in Pine Bluff in 1939, Moore attended Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal (A.M. & N.) College (now the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff) in Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas for one year then transferred to Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, where he received a bachelor degree in Commercial Industry. Moore returned to Pine Bluff to work with his father at Moore Tailor Company until World War II, when he joined the Navy as a Musician. He received a Masters Degree from University of New York in New York City and was the first African American to receive a doctorate from George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville in 1959. With funding from his major professor, Moore traveled to the Belgium Congo in Africa to research his dissertation entitled "A Survey of Education in the Belgium Congo." Theodore X. Jones was born August 20, 1904 to Attorney Japeth Farland Jones and Eliza Jones. After graduating from Merrill High School in Pine Bluff, Jones graduated from Tuskegee Institute. Jones became a lawyer with his father's firm in Pine Bluff. On December 31, 1945, Jones married Versie Barnett with whom he had three daughters: Gwendolyn, Janice and Georgette. Jones died on October 22, 1968.

1 copy negative : b&w ; 13 x 10 cm. (5 x 4 in.)

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Arkansas History Commission

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The Arkansas History Commission was created by the General Assembly in 1905. Inspired and guided during its early years by John Hugh Reynolds, the commission is the official archives of the state, responsible for collecting and preserving the source materials of the history of Arkansas. From the description of Arkansas History Commission records, 1905-1984 [microform]. (Arkansas History Commission). WorldCat record id: 244818119 ...

Jones, Theodore X., 1904-1968.

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Moore, Malvin E., 1918-

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Adams Foto (Firm : Pine Bluff, Ark.),

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Persistence of the Spirit, directed by Ken Hubbell, was an interpretive study of the people and events that contributed to the black experience in Arkansas. From the description of Front row are U.G. Dalton Jr., Jeremiah Robinson, M. Moore Jr. and T.X. Jones, 1940's. [graphic]. [194-] (Arkansas History Commission). WorldCat record id: 47180226 ...

Robinson, Jeremiah

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Dalton, U. G. b. 1897.

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