Francis Gwaltney

Author Francis Irby Gwaltney, born in Traskwood (Saline County), whose most famous work, The Day the Century Ended, describes social conditions in the South in general and Arkansas in particular; May 1959.

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Courtesy of the Arkansas State Archives

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