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  • Walmart donates $100K to replace Arkansas' Confederate-linked statues at the US Capitol (Cankles hardest hit)

    07/23/2020 3:51:28 AM PDT · by Libloather · 5 replies
    ABC 'News' ^ | 7/07/20 | Catherine Thorbecke
    Walmart has donated $100,000 towards efforts to replace Arkansas' Confederate-linked statues at the U.S. Capitol with new statues of singer Johnny Cash and civil rights activist Daisy Bates. The private sector donation comes as the nation is facing a racial reckoning in the wake of protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody that has led to the toppling of many Civil War-era statues across the country. "We support the effort by the state legislature and Governor Hutchinson to honor two prominent Arkansans, civil rights pioneer Daisy Bates and music legend Johnny Cash, with statues in National Statuary...
  • **Caption This!*** Bill Clinton in Arkansas for (Daisy) Bates home aid

    04/19/2002 8:31:36 AM PDT · by DCBryan1 · 48 replies · 512+ views
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ^ | 19 APR 02 | ELISA CROUCH
    Former President Clinton greets guests Thursday afternoon in front of the Little Rock home where civil rights leaders Daisy and L.C. Bates lived during the 1957 Central High School desegregation crisis. Clinton was helping start a fund drive to restore the home. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/STEPHEN B. THORNTON) Clinton pleads for Bates home aid ELISA CROUCH ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE In the 1950s and 1960s, the blond brick home that belonged to Daisy and L.C. Bates became the command post for change. In the den downstairs, Daisy Bates tutored the nine students who integrated Little Rock's Central High School in 1957. Her neighbors...