Florence Beatrice Georgia Ann Laster (1926 -1961), Dunbar High Smith Price (1887 -1953) of School grad, world famous soprano, 1951 Marian Anderson Little Rock. Composer, arranger, Prize recipient Shoppe: Established organist and teacher; composed more Barbara Hendricks (1948 - ) of Stephens, AR; world than 300 works. First black woman to renowned lyric soprano since mid-1970s. Operatic debut: San have a symphonic work performed by Francisco Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, UK, and New York City a major orchestra, Symphony in E Town Hall. UN Refugee Agency, Honorary Ambassador for Life; Minor, 1933. Capitol High School Horace Mann High School alumnus graduate, 1903 Kristin Lewis (1975 - ) of Little Rock; internationally Brent recognized lirico-spinto soprano debuted as Donna Elvira in Hoxie, AR Jennings (1951 - ) Mozart’s Don Giovanni,Germany 2005. Received “Artist of the of LR; character actor Year Award”, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Finland, and “Oscars best known for films: of the Opera” prize, Foundation of Verona for the Arena, Italy, 2010 Moneyball (2011), Witness (1985) and Life Lawrence Hamilton (1954 -2014) of Ashdown, AR; of 25 black students. LR attorney Chris C. (1999) and numerous Broadway actor appeared in the hits Play On, Jelly’s Last Jam, and Mercer was active in this historic event. television roles; LR Ragtime; musical director for opera star Jessye Norman; Central High School performed for former President Reagan and Pope John Paul II; Graduate (1969) past Philander Smith College Cultural Affairs Director 1980 Mahlon Martin of Little Rock, first black City Riley ’Doc’ Johns 1895-1950, Little Rock Central High School James Henry “Jimmy” McKissic (1940 - 2013) Manager of Little Rock; 1983, Dept. of Finance and athletic trainer and Quigley Stadium of Little Rock, raised in Pine Bluff; internationally famous professional Administration, Director; 1989, Winthrop Rockefeller Elected Arkansas’s first African American custodian; sports medicine pioneer pianist who entertained 3 U.S. presidents and lived in France, Foundation, Director GA, moved to Switzerland, Morocco and Singapore; offered free annual Carnegie Capital Hill School Hall concerts; PBS documentary: How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall Helena, AR 1981 Charles Bussey; of Little 2015 He was appointed principal of Capital Hill School in Rock, first African American elected Mayor of Little Rock; 20th Street named in his honor Joyce Ann Elliott Colette D. Honorable James Price; Dr. E.C. Morris, Pastor; designated of Willisville, AR; Nominated to the Federal Arkansas Senator, 31st Energy Regulatory Commission 1984 The Hon. P.A. “Les” Dist., 2009 - present; former by President Barack Obama Hollingsworth;Little Rock, Majority Leader. Previously August 2014, sworn in January AR appointed to the AR Supreme Court served in Arkansas House 5, 2015; formerly served four Born in Laren County, SC of Representatives 2000- years as chairman of the 2006. Educator, leading Arkansas Public Service education advocate Commission 1977 Earnest Joshua: Established JM Products, a black cosmetics firm in Little Rock Dr. Vertie L. Carter (1923 - ) Educator, UAPB philanthropist, activist February 3, 1948 McGraw Learning Institute: First black owned and operated radio Established 1983 in LR as an alternative child care and learning facility by Entered the University of Arkansas Law Elected first African American Dr. Patricia Washington McGraw

African American Wanda Hamilton, a long time activist and physician performed newspaper columnist for The Lincoln Echo, Fort Smith African American community John W. Walker newspaper. Hamilton was one of the first One of the foremost civil rights advocates in U.S., began working 1935 -1998 with the NAACP; established practice in LR, and is responsible for Paul Laurence Dunbar African American students to attend Little Rock handling much of the civil rights laws in AR, including the (1872 - 1906) born in Dayton, OH University (1964), now University of Arkansas continuing Pulaski County School Districts desegregation at LittleHall Rock; High and School former secretary, Integration Urban Born in Wabbeseka, AR activist wwho emerged lawsuits, responsible for the making of law in numerous for black citizens in Dermott, AR in 1898 League of Greater Little Rock Fire and Soul on Ice discrimination cases

1960 2007 2015 AR 72203 PO Box 3232 Little Rock, Afghan War Missouri Compromise, in U.S. History in 1820, first of 2001- 2002 - 2010 several acts and measures passed by U.S. Congress that Born in Brinkley, AR; outlined prolonged sectional conflict over extending slavery Ruth Polk Patterson (1930 -1988) Lawrence Leo “Snub” Mosley and eventually led to American Civil War born near Nashville, Arkansas; teacher and (1905 -1981), LR, jazz trombonist, composer; Attorney and publisher: author best known for her book: The Seed Gibbs High School grad. Sideman with Claude Hopkins, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Plessy v. Ferguson, May 1896 of Sally Good’n, 1985; Patterson organized Henderson. Best known as member of 1920s The “separate but equal” provision of public accommodations by state the Assoc. of the Study of Afro-American Alphonso Trent Orchestra, creator of the slide governments is constitutional under the Equal Protection Clause Life and History, Little Rock branch, 1975 saxaphone - the ‘Snuba phone’, a 1940 hit record Site of The Man with the Funny Little Horn, and leader 1919 of 1st Black USO featuring Alberta Hunter Race Riot Sylvia Moss Clay: Born 1937, first Black female band Dr. F.B. Coffin director in the state of Arkansas; music First African American Maya Angelou educator, gospel music proponent (1928 - 2014) born Marguerite Anna Johnson of St. Louis, MO and periodically raised in Stamps, Al Bell: Born 1940 Alvertis Isbell in Brinkley, AR, raised in North AR world renowned actor, political Little Rock; producer, 2011 Grammy Award winner, marketing and activist, and best selling author and poet; promotions innovator, recording executive, co-owner former Stax Presidential Medal of Freedom and Record Co., Memphis, TN; Philander Smith College graduate National Medal of Arts winner; US postage stamp issued in her honor 2015 Arthur Lee Porter, Sr. (1934 - 1993); LittleRock Robert “Say” McIntosh Long-time community activist,

1978 The Hon. Henry L. Jones: 1959 Hall High School Appointed US Magistrate Judge for the Eastern Effie Mae Jones, Elsie Robinson, Resulted in a 1992 Arkansas African American legislators from and Estella Thompson, first black 1868 - 1893 students to integrate The Hon. Joyce E. Williams Warren Joseph Carter Corbin (1833 -1911): Born in Pine Bluff, AR; first black woman graduate from UALR Law School; Founder and president of Arkansas’s first African first black woman law clerk in AR; 1983, first black woman judge in Pulaski James Leary: Bassist, Marion Taylor 1942 Sue Cowan Morris Williams 1968, The first African Plantiff for the City Teachers Assoc. v. the Supt. and the LR American state trooper School Board who demanded equal pay for black teachers. in Arkansas attorney, joined local attorneys in the trial and lost the case. Cornelius R. Coffey(1903 - 1994) Newport, AR. In 1938, first African American to establish an aeronautical school in U.S. Coffey School of Aeronau- tics was located at Harlem, Linda Pondexter Airport, Oaklawn, IL Chesterfieldof Hope, AR; State Senator, Dist.30, 2011 - present. Formerly served in Arkansas House of Representatives Photo Credits: 2003-2007. First black graduate of Mosaic Templars Cultural Center (MTCC) Hendrix College; past president LR Arkansas History Commission; Butler Center for 2008 School Board, Pulaski Co. Assoc. Arkansas Studies: Fayth Hill Washington of Classroom Teachers, and AR (Hill Foundation) 44th President Education Assoc. Annie Mabel McDaniel Abrams Collection of the United States High for his work with the Little Rock Nine and Daisy Bernice Lamb McSwain Collection Albert Smith, Artist; Alyce Flakes Collection of America; Bates Christopher C. Mercer Family Collection Little Rock Housing Authority (Jessie Powell Tower) re-elected 2012 Precious Hunt Williams Collection Special Collections Library, UA Fayetteville Pi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Pi Alpha Fraternity Mifflin Wistar Gibbs: Shadow and Light: An Autobiography, 1902 E.M. Woods: Blue Book of Little Rock and Argenta, Arkansas, 1907 Nancy Robinson Lott and Regina Norwood: Josephine - Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Mrs. Josephine Irvin Harris Pankey, 2012 Snub Mosely album cover photo, Amazon.co.UK; Arkansas.gov MLAAH Lucious Josephine I. H. (1854 - 1951) Daisy Lee Jessie Powell Mattie Powell Pankey Jeffrey L. Hawkins, Scipio Africanus William Augustus Christopher (L.C.) Bates Gatson Bates Ellen T. Carpenter Annie Mae Bankhead Annie Mable McDaniel Christopher C. (1893 - 1974) Sr. Pioneering African American Elias McSails Amelia Bradford Ives Jones (1901 - 1980) (1916 - 2011) (1904 - 1989) Abrams (1869 - 1954) teacher - career spanned Singfield (1914 - 1999) Mercer Early prominent real estate agent and (1905 - 2003) 70 years of service Woods: (1878 - 1940) (1864 - 1943) Huttig, AR, native; civil rights (1931 - ) Jessie and Mattie Powell, proprietors of (1875 - 1950) A tireless civil rights Educator, mother of ten Dedicated civic (1924 - 2012) Powell’s Food Store at 20th & Pulaski St., LR land developer. In 1907, before women’s in Little Rock School District; Baptist minister Author: Blue Book of advocate and long-time leader; president of the AR children, active in church leader Devoted grandmother, long-time suffrage, Pankey began purchasing and East Little Rock Served as one of the first principals Tulip, AR, native. In 1889, Jones began the Born in Wilkes County, GA; originally Chapter of the National In 1967, appointed Deputy and later managers and shareholders with taught all grades Latin, Science Little Rock and of the Bush Elementary School, practice of law in Pulaski County Circuit Court, worked as carpenter, later helped to supporter of the NAACP; and civic organizations, who founded social activist and strong Prosecuting Attorney in Little Plaza Enterprise, owners of Village Square subdividing land to create three distinct community leader, and English; principal of Capital L.C.and wife, Daisy Lee Association for the charter member of the College proponent of participatory LR African American communities. member East End Civic Argenta, Arkansas otherwise known as 21st Street LR; served as attorney to Mosaic Templars of launch weekly Little Rock Reporter, Advancement of Colored Rock, the first African American Grocery Store at 16th & Chester St. Jessie Hill School in 1875 and 1885; Little Rock; School; Bradford Ives was one of America organization; most remembered as 1901. By 1903, he was named VP Gatson Bates, published Society for the Station Community democracy; past president of the to hold this position in any Powell was the first black commissioner with Josephine Pankey Third Addition, located League; Pulaski County the Arkansas State Press, People (NAACP) in 1952; Preservation of Center, 1971; Little Rock Chapter of the National near Cantrell Road-Highway 10, consisted Justice of the Peace; pivotal in the evolution Central Printing the founders of the local branch of attorney who led skillful defense of 12 black of Capital City Savings Bank; Mifflin served as advisor to the southern state; served as the Little Rock Housing Authority; the of black education; Stephens sharecroppers sentenced to death for their part Wistar Gibbs, owner. Singfield’s other a black newspaper, Mosaic Templars of Bankhead Drive Council of Negro Women; delegate to advisor to L.C. & Daisy Bates Jessie Powell Tower at Battery and Wolfe of 80 acres, and is still intact. Further, she Metroplan Co.,1907 the Urban League (1937); 1941-1973 Little Rock Nine who America Building is named in her the 2004 Democratic Convention; life is noted for contributions as public school Conference Room School located at 17th and in 1919 Elaine Race Massacre and won their ventures included real estate, grocery integrated Little Rock during the 1957 St. is named in his honor. Mattie Powell was Amelia Bradford Ives Homes release. Jones spearheaded WWI Liberty businesses, and a printing plant. In (MTBPS), and Mosaic honor member of the NAACP; active desegregation of Little Rock active at Union A.M.E. Church as a trustee, teacher, author, songwriter and named in his honor Dec. Maple Streets is named in her Public Housing named in her Central High School in 1957; Templars Cultural Center member of the Mayor’s committee, philanthropist. 1994 honor Bond drive to raise $243,000 in the black 1911, he began the practice of law, in Bates’ home at 1207 West Central High School steward and teacher in the A.B. Browning honor, now demolished community, 1945; instrumental director of 1918 became a founding member of (MTCC) Advisory Board 50th Anniversary of the Little Rock Sunday School Class for Young Mothers 27th Street was designated Central High School Integration Crisis United Charities, precursor to United Way; by first Arkansas branch of NAACP in LR, a National Historic Landmark 1942 Jones partnered with other black lawyers and a Republican Party in 2001 and sued the LR School District to gain equal activist who struggled for black parity in pay for black teachers. In tribute, Scipio A. 1920. Singfield was a leader in the War Jones U.S. Post Office Building at Loan Drive for black people, an 1700 Main, LR, was dedicated in 2007. associate advisor to WWI registrants, and a Wonder State Bar Association charter member, an early black lawyers group, 1938

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