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"Lynching following precedent" newspaper clipping

Willis Sees Lynching Article

Domed building seen through bare trees beyond a barbed wire fence with sign

white man and little girl stand in entrance of wooden building. photo inset of white man's face in front of sign "Waiting Room for White Passengers"

Segregated Waiting Room

old green door with yellow lettering "White Waiting Room"

Segregated Waiting Room Door

African-American man in suit and hat drinking from fountain labeled "colored"

Segregated Water Fountain

Crowd of white people with American flags and holding signs "Race Mixing is Communism" "Stop the Race Mixing March of the AntiChrist" on the capitol steps

Segregationist Rally

white man with suit and tie

"Letter to the editor" newspaper clipping

Selby Murders Letter

White man with muttonchop sideburns standing in military uniform with sword

Thomas O. Selfridge

White men and woman standing together looking at photograph with framed pictures on the wall behind them

Older white man with camera standing outside brick building with arched windows and street lamps

Two story red brick building with sign saying "Sellmeyer Mercantile Company"

Sellmeyer Mercantile

"McVeigh and Simmes Attorneys at Law" newspaper advertisement

Semmes Law Firm

Group of older white men in suits and white women holding up large American flag in room with columns

Senators and Representative: 1938

Names engraved in sidewalk

Senior Walk Names

Rural street intersection with paved road bisecting gravel roads

Painting American flag on pole sublime mountain landscape in background with sunlight through clouds

Sentinel of Freedom

Newspaper front page "Sentinel-Record"

Sentinel-Record

White man and woman lying on the ground with red white and black text explaining all the things that happened on September 30 "the day that shook up a generation"

September 30, 1955

Native American man in a turban with a pipe holding a tablet with letters on it

Close-up of archival boxes on metal shelves

Sequoyah Center Materials

Interior of archives with framed artwork on the walls and materials in boxed on multiple shelves

Sequoyah Center Stacks

Pair of chairs outside small building with open door

Servants' Quarters

Older white man with boy at campsite with lake on yellow program with black text

Sesquicentennial Brochure

envelope featuring to one side blue scale drawing of state capitol with large state flag and text below reading "Arkansas Statehood 150th Anniversary"

Sesquicentennial Celebration: First Day Cover Envelope

headshots of men and women with names below them on black and white "Fanfare for the Future" program cover

Sesquicentennial Program

Round seal with "Arkansas Sesquicentennial 1836 1986" written in the outer circle and skyline with outline of Arkansas inside it

Sesquicentennial Seal

Pink and blue "Salute to Statehood weekend" cover with seal and black text

Sesquicentennial Tickets

African-American man with tools and hard hat in forest

Setting Backfire

Group of cypress trees in flooded swamp

Seven Devils Swamp Natural Area

White men on horseback in front of multistory brick building

Sevier County Courthouse

Multistory striped brick building with arched and rectangular entrances rectangular windows downspout and large trees

Sevier County Courthouse

"A Brutal Murder" newspaper clipping

Sevier County Lynching Article

White men sitting on horse in wooded area

Sevier County Mail

"Sevier County" map with borders roads cities waterways national wildlife refuge

Sevier County Map

Postcard with theater on the front with text reading "The Sevier

White man with dark hair in suit and white shirt

Column shaped gravestone and tree in cemetery

Ambrose Sevier Gravesite

black woman smiling gesturing in shoulder button blouse with short hair necklace earrings purse

Lottie Shackelford

African-American woman smiling in top with circles on it and earrings

Lottie Shackelford

Group of white children and teachers standing outside building with wood siding

Shadden Springs School

Single-story "Shadden's" barbeque building with beer signs

Shadden's B-B-Q

Sunny street with cemetery and white sign and trees

Shady Grove Cemetery

Single-story church building with cupola

Shady Grove Delmar Church and School

Side view of stone arch bridge over river under autumn trees

Shady Lake CCC Bridge No. 1

Side view of stone arch bridge over stream under autumn trees

Shady Lake CCC Bridge No. 2

Multistory building with covered entrance on parking lot with sign in the foreground

Shady Lawn Mennonite Gospel Chapel

white woman poses draped in fringed shawl

white woman in dress with white bow on left-hand side

African-American man with mustache in straw hat

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