Senator George Bell [graphic] / Dawson, photographer. [189-]

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Senator George Bell [graphic] / Dawson, photographer. [189-]

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Negative taken of Senator George Bell from Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas, in the early 1890s. Senator George Bell served in the Arkansas Legislature representing the Fifteenth District, Desha and Chicot Counties between 1891-1894. After graduating of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, Bell was a school teacher. Elected in 1890, Senator George W. Bell (Republican) was a leader among the 12 black legislators serving at that time. Bell led the movement against the Tillman Bill, which provided for segregation of railroad and trolley cars. Although he fought hard against segregation, Senator Bell could not stop the "Jim Crow Segregation."

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

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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. Developed in 1986-87 by a team of humanities scholars (including Patricia Washington McGraw, Carl H. Moneyhon, Ruth Polk Patterson, Grif Stockley, Orville W. Taylor, LeRoy T. Williams, and Nudie E. Williams with Tom Baskett Jr. as editor) supported by grants (from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Public Projects and the...

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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 ...

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