Mayor Washington, Glenn Mahone and Albert Porter [graphic] / Art Meripol [photographer]. 1984.

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Mayor Washington, Glenn Mahone and Albert Porter [graphic] / Art Meripol [photographer]. 1984.

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Negative taken of (from left to right) Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, Glen Mahone and Albert Porter. Albert Porter was Civil Right leader and was the faculty adviser to the Lane College student NAACP chapter that organized protests in downtown Jackson, Tennessee in 1960. Porter has been the member of many Arkansas state committees, most recently the Governor's Advisory Council on Aging (GACA). Porter was also the Chairman of the Board of the Little Rock Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC), a state agency that administered federal job Training funds. In addition to his political activities, Porter is a leader at the Bahia Center. As of 2001, Porter was living in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas and an active civic leader. A native of Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, Glenn Mahone is a civic leader and was the National conference of State Societies (NCSS) President of the Arkansas State Society. When the former President Bill Cinton was 22 years old, he formed an interracial band with Mahone called the New Banana.

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

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Arkansas History Commission

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