CHARACTER COLLECTION

A collection of mini exhibits featuring some of the characters found in the archival collections at the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture.

Dr. William Townsend

Dr. William Henry Townsend was the first licensed Black optometrist, one of the first Black state legislators in the Arkansas General Assembly since the 1890s, and the first Black chair of the Aging and Legislative Affairs Committee.

Pauline Hoeltzel

Pauline Hoeltzel was a lifelong educator and civil servant. She was a faculty member at Little Rock Junior College and UA Little Rock, president of the American Association of University Women, and the first woman on the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees.

Garnet Thomas Eisele

Judge Garnet Thomas Eisele was a lawyer, veteran, and federal district judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas for 41 years. From 1966 to 1969, he worked as Winthrop Rockefeller’s legal advisor. He played a significant role in reforming Arkansas prisons.

Edward Fry

Ed Fry served as chief of staff for Arkansas Representatives Tommy Robinson, Ray Thornton, and Vic Snyder. He was an active member of the Young Democrats of America (YDA) and the American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL).

Graham Hawks

Graham Hawks was a soldier in World War II when he met fellow soldier Winthrop Rockefeller. Surviving the war, the two men would maintain a lifelong friendship.

Sonny Walker

Sonny Walker, native of Arkansas and graduate of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, was a civil rights activist and an accomplished public servant.

Conard Hays, Jr.

Conard Hays, Jr., was a chaplain in the United States Army during World War II. He settled in Arkansas with his family and taught Bible and Religion at Harding University in Searcy for 34 years.

Robert Brown

Bishop Robert Raymond Brown led a “ministry of reconciliation” as a key figure in Little Rock Central High School’s desegregation crisis in 1957.

Scott Bond

During the late 19th century, former slave Scott Bond became a successful black farmer and businessman in Madison, Arkansas.

Dr. LeRoy Christophe

Dr. LeRoy Christophe worked as an educator in Arkansas for 29 years from 1930 to 1959. After serving as a teacher in Dunbar and the principal of two Little Rock elementary schools, Dr. Christophe became principal of Dunbar High School in 1945.

John Gould Fletcher

John Gould Fletcher was an influential Arkansas poet and essayist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938 and participated in the literary movements of Agrarianism, Imagism, Modernism, and Romanticism that shaped twentieth-century literature.

Elizabeth Huckaby

Elizabeth Huckaby served as vice principal of girls at Little Rock Central High School during the Little Rock crisis of 1957. Huckaby spent the year of the crisis working in support of desegregation, protecting the Little Rock Nine, maintaining order at Central High, and promoting the education of students.

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