M.L. King (left) and Lawrence Davis Sr. (right), 1958 Homecoming at Pine Bluff, Ark. [graphic]. 1958.

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M.L. King (left) and Lawrence Davis Sr. (right), 1958 Homecoming at Pine Bluff, Ark. [graphic]. 1958.

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Negative taken of Civil Rights activit Martin Luther King, Jr. and Lawrence Davis Sr. at the 1958 Homcoming at Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas. The Homecoming is probably for the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal (A.M. & N.) College (now called University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Born in McCrory, Woodruff County, Arkansas in 1914, Lawrence A. Davis graduated from Merrill High School in Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas in 1933. He received an A.B. Degree in English from the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical, and Normal College in Pine Bluff (later called Univ. of Arkansas at Pine Bluff) in 1937, and a M.A. degree from the University of Kansas in 1941. Davis was president of the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical, and Normal College in Pine Bluff from 1943-1972 and became the first Chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Dr. Davis became the President of Laney College in Oakland, Alameda County, California in 1975.

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

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Arkansas History Commission

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