L.C. Bates [graphic] / Gene Prescott [photographer]. 1969.

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L.C. Bates [graphic] / Gene Prescott [photographer]. 1969.

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Negative taken of L.C. Bates testifying before a joint meeting of the Arkansas Senate and House on City and County Affairs on January 8, 1969. Bates stated that the election of alderman and city directors by city-wide vote in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas denied representation to the African American communities. Lucius Christopher Bates (born April 27, 1901, in Mississippi and died August 1980, at St. Vincent Infirmary in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas) married Daisy Bates. The Bates moved to Little Rock in 1941 where they edited and published one of the first weekly black newspaper in Arkansas, the Arkansas State Press. She was a civil rights leader who came into the national spotlight in 1957 during the desegregation crisis at Central High School in Little Rock. The Bates were active in the Arkansas Conference of the NAACP movement, which she served for a time as president. Mr. Bates was the field representative in Arkansas for the NAACP from 1960 to 1971.

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

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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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Prescott, Gene,

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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...

Bates, L. C. (Lucius Christopher), 1901-1980.

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