Segregationist Arrested in Black Nightclub

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Collection:: Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
Title:: Segregationist Arrested in Black Nightclub
Creator:: New York Times
Publisher:: Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
Date of Original:: 1959-08-29
Subject:: African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas
People:: Norwood, Robert J.
Location:: United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
Medium:: articles
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: Article in the New York Times regarding the arrest of Robert J. Norwood, head of the Arkansas States Rights Council and an ardent segregationist, for public intoxication in a nightclub catering to African-Americans.
Segregationists -- Racism -- Little Rock Central High School -- Social Conditions -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
Arkansas Racist Seized As Drunk in Negro Bar LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug. 28 (AP) - Robert J. Norwood head of the Arkansas States Right Council and one of those arrested during a segre- gationist march on Central High School Aug. 12, was picked up by the police today in a Negro night club. Mr. Norwood was charged with drunkenness and was re- leased on a $15.50 bond. He was charged with loiter- ing afte he had been arrested during the clash between marchers and police near the integrated school on opening day. That case is scheduled for hearing Sept. 17. police Lieut. carl E. Jack- son said he ahd been called to the Negro night club at about 2 A.M. by a Negro policeman who reported a "drunk white man" in the place Lieutenant Jackson said he had found Mr. Norwood sitting at the bar with a group of Negroes. Source: New York Times
Metadata URL:: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/393
IIIF manifest:: https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:393/manifest.json
Additional Rights Information:: Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
Original Collection:: New York Times, August 29, 1959
Contributing Institution:: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
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