P.A. "Les" Hollingsworth, February 11, 1972 [graphic] / Pat Patterson [photographer]. 1972.

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P.A. "Les" Hollingsworth, February 11, 1972 [graphic] / Pat Patterson [photographer]. 1972.

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Negative taken of people applauding Les Hollinsworth on February 11, 1972. "Les" (Perlesta Arthur) Hollingsworth was born April 12, 1936 in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas. He received degrees from Dunbar High School in 1954, Talladega Alabama College majoring in chemistry and a degree in Law from University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1969. He married Ada Shine. Hollingsworth became a partner in the first integrated law firm in Little Rock, Walker, Rotenbery, Kaplan, Lavey and Hollingsworth. In addition to working as a lawyer, Hollingsworth served on the Little Rock city council, as a deputy prosecutor for the state's sixth judicial district, an advisor to the late-Arkansas Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller, a justice on the Arkansas Supreme Court in the mid-1980s and an administrative aide on prison affairs to Governor Winthrop Rockefeller. In 1971, he was appointed by Prosecuting Attorney Jim Guy Tucker as a deputy prosecuting attorney. He was elected to the city's Board of Directors and in 1974 he was elected assistant mayor. In 1977, he was appointed to serve on the city Civil Service Commission. He has been active in the Black Caucus, the Association of Black Lawyers and the NAACP.

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

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