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AR 1950s Quiz Flashcards

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the first African American student to be admitted to any southern university for professional or graduate coursework

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Silas Hunt

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Served as governor from 1949-1953; wanted greater opportunity for African Americans

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Sid McMath

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the first Republican governor elected in Arkansas since Reconstruction; he replaced Orval Faubus. He was also a well-known philanthropist and business leader

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Winthrop Rockefeller

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infamous governor who served during the Little Rock Central High School crisis

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Orval Faubus

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born in Kensett served in the US House of Representatives from 1939 to 1977, making him one of the longest - serving politicians in AR history. Also one of the most powerful lawmakers in the nation. The name “Mr. Chairman”

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Wilbur Mills

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a successful Arkansas governor and US senator in the 1970s, 80s and 90s

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Dale Bumbers

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Popular Arkansas politician who served as a state legislator, as governor, a US senator, and in the US House of Representatives

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David Pryor

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a Democrat and segregationist who was a state Supreme Court justice and ran for governor against Rockefeller in 1966

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Justice Jim Johnson

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in 1975 became the first woman appointed to the Arkansas Supreme Court

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Elsijane T. Roy

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Led other democrats on senate committee to walk out of hearings in protest of Senator McCarthy’s brash and aggressive behavior

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John McClellan

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Reelected Rockefeller to a second terms as US Senate, and gave their electoral votes to George Wallace for president

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William Fubright

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Headquartered in Bentonville and founded by Sam Walton in 1962, the company grew from one store in Rogers to almost seven thousand stores with almost two million employees, and it is the world’s largest company

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Wal Mart

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a department store chain founded in Nashville, AR. Today, its world headquarters are located in Little Rock.

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Dillards

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headquartered in Springdale and founded in 1935, it is the world’s largest processor and marketer of beef, chicken, and pork

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Tyson Foods

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a wireless technology and communications service provider founded in Little Rock in 1943

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Alltel

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one of the country’s leading transport (trucking) and logistics (organized movements of goods) companies, founded in 1969; its headquarters are located in Lowell.

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J.B. Hunt

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an investment-banking firm (one of the largest outside of Wall Street in New York) founded in 1933 in Little Rock by W. R. “Witt” Stephens. Its headquarters remain in Little Rock

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Stephens Inc

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founded in 1921, a cooperative that sells and mills rice, soybeans, and wheat. It is one of the world’s leading millers of rice, and is based in Stuttgart

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Riceland Foods

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the statewide newspaper founded in 1819 by William Woodruff, which was bought by the owner of the Arkansas Democrat in 1991

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Arkansas Gazette

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the location of the first attempts of public school integration in Little rock in the 1950s. The conflicts between segregationists, law enforcement, the public, and civil rights activists drew international attention to the situation

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Central High School

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powerful business, lobbyists or other activists who give money to a political candidate in an attempt to influence him or her on a specific issue

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Special Interests

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also known as the Freedom of Information law, it opened government records to public view

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Sunshine Law

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charitable contributions; to distribute or donate funds or goods

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Philanthropy

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long-term prison inmates entrusted with the oversight of other prisoners

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Trustys

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the Little Rock School District’s original desegregation plan, proposed by the superintendent, Virgil Blossom

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Blossom Plan

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