Arkansas Public Policy Panel records 1987-1998.

Arkansas Public Policy Panel.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vx5t2m (corporateBody)

The Arkansas Public Policy Panel incorporated as a non-profit organization in the 1970s. The Panel was the successor to the Panel of American Women (PAW), a group composed of about thirty women from varied ethnic and social backgrounds who spoke at school assemblies and civic groups with the aim of promoting racial understanding. Brownie Ledbetter, a leader in PAW, became executive director of the Public Policy Panel in the mid-1970s. The Panel expanded its scope in the 1980s and 1990s as member...

Ledbetter, Brownie.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6321fkt (person)

Brownie Williams Ledbetter, one of Arkansas' best-known political activists, was born April 28, 1932 in Little Rock, Arkansas, to William H. Williams, a businessman and dairy farmer, and Helon Brown Williams. She graduated from Central High School and attended Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. In 1953, she married Cal Ledbetter, Jr., an attorney and later political science professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. They had three children: Grainger, Jeffery (deceased) and Sno...

Panel of American Women

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tn238d (corporateBody)