OPEN HOUSE AND PHOTO EXHIBIT OF CENTRAL HIGH DESEGREGATION CRISIS TO BE HELD IN SNYDER'S DC OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C.-United States Representative Vic Snyder
(AR-02) announced today that he will host an Open House and Photo Exhibit of the
1957 Little Rock Central High Desegregation Crisis Friday from 4 until 5:30 pm
in his Washington, DC office.
"In 1948 Mississippi may have voted for Strom Thurmond, but Arkansas did not,"
Snyder said. "Arkansans, led by great men like Governor Sid McMath, helped elect
President Harry Truman, who instituted fair employment in the federal government
and desegregated the armed forces. There are other Arkansas heroes including
The Little Rock Nine."
A poster of the reconciliation of Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery,
signed by Eckford, Massery, and now-deceased photographer Will Counts, will be
given away at 5:30 in a random drawing of those attending. Eckford was one of
the Little Rock Nine that attempted to enroll in Little Rock's Central High
School, which until then had been segregated.
Snyder concluded, "In light of insensitive comments recently made by one of
our nation's leaders, I feel that it is important that we never forget what
segregation in America and in Arkansas really meant." -30- |