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Will Counts was born in Little Rock on August 24, 1931. [1] During the Depression he, his brother, and his parents (Ira Counts Sr. and Jeanne Frances Adams Counts) were sharecroppers in White County, outside the town of Rose Bud and in Lonoke County, outside of Cabot, before they relocated in 1936 to the Plum Bayou Homesteads, a New Deal project, in Jefferson County.
Anne Pressly (August 28, 1982 – October 25, 2008) was an American news anchor for KATV Channel 7 in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was born in Beaufort, South Carolina and grew up in Greenville. She moved to Little Rock during her high school junior year when her mother remarried.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is the newspaper of record in the U.S. state of Arkansas, [2] printed in Little Rock with a northwest edition published in Lowell.It is distributed for sale in all 75 of Arkansas' counties.
A 23-year-old nurse, mother to a 10-month-old girl, is among the four people killed in Friday’s mass shooting at an Arkansas grocery store.. Callie Weems died when rounds and fragments from a ...
Robert Robinson McIntosh (1943 – June 24, 2023), known as Robert "Say" McIntosh, was an American political and civil rights activist from Little Rock, Arkansas. McIntosh was born in Mississippi in 1943. [1] Growing up in a family of 11 children, the family eventually moved to Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Little Rock Nine were a group of African-American students who began the integration, or the desegregation, of all white schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. When Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School to keep the nine students from entering the school, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division into Little ...
John Robert Starr (1927 – 1 April 2000) was an American journalist and newspaper columnist.Starr was noted for his role in the demise of the Arkansas Gazette during the 1980s and his criticism of President Bill Clinton including popularizing the term "Slick Willie".
Ebby Jane Steppach (March 31, 1997 - October 25, 2015) [2] was an American woman who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Little Rock, Arkansas. [3] Days before her disappearance, she had accused four men of gang-raping her at a party she had attended. On October 25, 2015, she placed an erratic phone call to her older brother, Trevor ...