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Took a leadership role in the battle against segregation in Arkansas. [28] Little Rock: Arkansas State Press: 1984 [30] 1998 [29] Weekly [30] LCCN sn90050043; OCLC 10766826 "Dedicated to the memory of L. Christopher Bates." A revival of the Arkansas State Press of the 1940s and 1950s. [29] Little Rock: Arkansas Survey: 1923 [31] 1935 [31 ...
Arkansas Historical Quarterly 57.3 (1998): 287–308. online; Taylor, Orville. Negro Slavery in Arkansas (1958; reprinted University of Arkansas Press, 2000). online; Wintory, Blake J. "African-American legislators in the Arkansas general assembly, 1868–1893." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 65.4 (2006): 385–434. online
The Arkansas State Press was an African-American newspaper published from 1941 to 1959. [4] [2] Dubbed "Little Rock's leading African-American newspaper," its owners and editors were Daisy Bates and L. C. Bates. According to historians, the newspaper was "believed by many to be instrumental in bringing about the desegregation of the Little Rock ...
Ohio, like most of the North and West, did not have de jure statutory enforced segregation (Jim Crow laws), but many places still had de facto social segregation in the early 20th century. Together with state sponsored segregation, such private owner enforced segregation was outlawed for public accommodations in the 1960s.
Norman Hill was at the AFL-CIO office in Washington, D.C., in August 1965, and recalls cheering when he learned the Voting Rights Act had passed Congress. Now 90, Hill started working in the Civil ...
In African-American history, the post–civil rights era is defined as the time period in the United States since Congressional passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, major federal legislation that ended legal segregation, gained federal oversight and enforcement of voter registration and electoral practices in states or areas ...
A New York Times headline read, "Planned Massacre of Whites Today", and the Arkansas Gazette (the leading newspaper in Arkansas) wrote that Elaine was "a zone of negro insurrection". [8] Subsequent to this reporting, more than 100 African Americans were indicted, with 12 being sentenced to death by electrocution. [ 8 ]
School segregation in the United States by state prior to Brown v. Board of Education (1954). The Declaration of Constitutional Principles (known informally as the Southern Manifesto) was a document written in February and March 1956, during the 84th United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places. [1]