Lottie Shackelford

Lottie Shackelford, who served as mayor of Little Rock (Pulaski County) from 1987 to 1988. She was considered by Esquire magazine in 1984 to be one of the forty most influential African Americans who would shape the next two decades.

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Courtesy of the Arkansas State Archives

Media

Time Period

Divergent Prosperity and the Arc of Reform (1968–2022)

Category

Civil Rights and Social Change / Modern Era / Race

Type

Person

Race & Ethnicity

African American

Gender

Female

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