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'Arkansas history'

MEMS' demolition threatens Historic District benefits

I wrote recently about the demolition of the former Massery Cleaners at 7th and Cross by the Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services, a city agency, for future expansion of its nearby headquarters.
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The remedial Arkansas history open line

The line is open. I apologize for a haphazard day.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton Children's Library to be dedicated Monday, with her on hand

It's done. The new children's branch of the Central Arkansas Library System will be named in honor of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former secretary of state, tireless worker in the cause of children and former first lady of the United States, at 1:30 p.m.

Jack Meriwether dies at 79

I've just received word that Jack Meriweather, 79, died this morning at St. Vincent Hospice.
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Coming: Behind-the-scenes account of 1980 Titan missile accident in Damascus, Ark.

This sounds worth looking for: Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford notes a September lecture visit by jjournalist Eric Schlosser ("Fast Food Nation") who'll publish in September a new book, "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety," centered on a famous Arkansas happening.

Must read: Roy Reed's obituary on Orval Faubus' sister

It's plugged at the top of the page, but don't fail to read Roy Reed's obituary for Orval Faubus' sister, Bonnie Lou Salcido, and the story it tells about Faubus family opposition to his stance that created the constitutional crisis in Little Rock.
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Historic Preservation Alliance's 2013 list of endangered structures

It's time for the Historic Preservation Alliance's annual list of historic structures in danger of being lost.

Like '42'? Come and listen to a tale of the Cotton States League

The Jackie Robinson movie, '42,' inspires a history lesson from Ernest Dumas this week on breaking the color line in Arkansas minor league baseball, along with a reminder that anybody who believes this a post-racial world should perhaps ask a black person before making any definitive judgments.
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A serious case of Beatlemania in Arkansas

Program set on KABF on life of C. C. Mercer

The Central High School National Historic Site notes the death of Christopher C. Mercer Jr., 88, a Little Rock lawyer and civil rights pioneer.
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Chris Mercer, attorney and civil rights figure, dead at 88

Little Rock lawyer Chris Mercer, a Little Rock lawyer who was an NAACP field secretary during the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 60s and an advisor to Daisy Bates during the Little Rock school desegregation crisis, died today at 88.

Can we stop with the Reconstruction reference?

Ernie Dumas elaborates this week on a point I touched on a few days ago the irony in the press-beloved heralding of Republican political victories in Arkansas as the "first since Reconstruction."
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