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Aaron v. Cooper (1956), 11, 104, 105 Act 10, 8 Act 115, 8 Adair, B. F., 40 Adams, Sherman, 5 Adams, Waldo, 25 Adkins, Homer, 21, 47, 49, 50, 53, 63 Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 16 Alabama, 19, 95, 106, 133, 134 Albany, Georgia, 118, 133 Alexander, Henry M., 9 Alford, Dale, 2, 5–6 Alston, Melvin O., 85 Alston v. School Board of the City of Norfolk (1940), 85 American Association of University Women, 106 American Civil Liberties Union, 120 American Friends Service Committee, 117, 121, 128, 138 American Jewish Committee, 131 Anderson, Karen, 4 Angelou, Maya, 56 Arendt, Hannah, 13 Arkansas Baptist College, 152 Arkansas Baptist Convention, 6 Arkansas Council on Human Relations, 9, 90, 91, 119–38 Arkansas Delta: black population, 123; and Civilian Conservation Corps camps, 19, 21, 23, 24, 34; and Elaine Race Riot, 19, 40, 57; and Hoxie school desegregation, 101–103, 123–25; and Mississippi River flood of 1927, 23 Arkansas Democrat: and black recreation facilities, 148; and Counts, I. Wilmer, 12; policy on use of titles, 122–23; reader comments on Faubus, 113; as rival to Arkansas Gazette, 7, 121; and Sutton, Ozell, 89, 123 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 158 Arkansas Democratic Voters Association, 53, 83, 145 Arkansas Education Association, 125 Arkansas Gazette: Arkansas Council on Human Relations article, 134; and black recreation facilities, 143, 144, 146; Civilian Conservation Corps camps article, 20; executive editor Harry S. Ashmore, 7, 120, 120–21, 125, 147; and lynching of John Carter, 42; policy on use of titles,122–23; as voice of moderation, 7 Arkansas General Assembly: passes Act 10 and Act 115 (1958), 8; passes Booker Bill (1953), 153; passes pro-segregation legislation (1957), 113; passes Pupil Assignment Bill (1955), 99, 123; passes Trussell Bill and Moore Bill (1945), 49; special session of 1958, 2 Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 11 Arkansas House of Representatives, 40, 136 Arkansas National Guard: deployment of by Faubus (1957), 1, 4, 8, 34, 68, 96, 109–10, 127; deployment of by Martineau (1927), 42; federalized by Eisenhower (1957), 69 Arkansas Negro Democratic Association, 43–54, 58, 145, 148 Arkansas State Department of Education, 63 Arkansas State Department of Highways, 25, 31 201 Index Arkansas State Press: Arkansas’s leading black newspaper, 10, 51; on black leadership in Little Rock, 51, 53, 84, 89–90; and black police officers in Little Rock, 145; and black recreation facilities, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151; and “Dollars for Daisy” campaigns, 90; and Flowers, William Harold, 64, 67, 86–87; forced out of business by segregationists, 89–90; and NAACP, 51; ownership and running of, 51, 82, 98, 126; as platform for Daisy Bates’s activism, 83, 84; and school desegregation, 98, 126; and white primary elections, 51. See also Bates, Daisy; Bates, L. C. Arkansas Supreme Court, 45 Arkansas Voter Education Project, 135 Armstrong, Louis, 13–14 Ashmore, Harry S., 7, 120–22, 125, 147 Associated Citizens’ Councils of Arkansas: exert pressure on Faubus, 113, 127; Faubus outlasts , 114; founding of, 103, 125; and Johnson, James D., 112, 135; literature on, 7–8. See also Capital Citizens’ Council; Hoxie Citizens’ Committee; Johnson, James D; massive resistance Audubon Arkansas, 157 B, Early (Daisy Bates’s cousin), 81 Babbitt, Thelma, 128 Badger, Tony, 6, 7, 16 Bailey, Carl, 33, 34 Barrett, Joe C., 47, 49 Bartley, Numan V., 5, 97 Bass, William Harry, 51, 145, 146 Bates, Daisy: and Aaron v. Cooper, 104; as activist, 70; and black police officers in Little Rock, 145; and black recreation facilities, 148; criticizes Little Rock’s black leadership, 51; and desegregation in Little Rock, 68, 104, 107; and gender, 70–93; as head of Arkansas State Conference of NAACP branches, 68, 126, 129; literature on, 10, 11; and racial progress in Little Rock, 146, 147; relationship with Lucious Christopher Bates, 71–72, 82; relationship with NAACP, 67, 68; relationship with parents and adoptive parents, 73–82. See also Arkansas State Press; Bates, Lucious Christopher; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Arkansas State Conference of branches Bates, Lucious Christopher (L. C.): and black police officers in Little Rock, 145; and black recreation facilities, 146–48; criticizes Little Rock’s black leadership, 51; and desegregation in Little Rock, 98, 104; as friend of William Harold Flowers, 86; as head of Little Rock NAACP branch legal redress committee, 52; literature on, 10; and racial progress in Little Rock, 146, 147; relationship with Daisy Bates, 71–72, 82; role as leader neglected, 10. See also Arkansas State Press; Bates, Daisy; National Association...