Albert Porter (left) and P.A."Les" Hollingsworth [graphic] / Larry Obsitnik [photographer]. 1982.

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Albert Porter (left) and P.A."Les" Hollingsworth [graphic] / Larry Obsitnik [photographer]. 1982.

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Negative taken for February 25, 1882, Arkansas Gazette article, "Deadline Set for OIC to Offer New Plan," A1:2. Albert Porter (left) with OIC attorney, P.A. "Les" Hollingsworth respond to allegations of gross mismanagement of the organization. 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. Born in Little Rock on April 12, 1936, "Les" (Perlesta Arthur) Hollingsworth was a prominent chemist, lawyer and judge. 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.

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