In 1948, Little River County World War II veteran Silas Hunt was admitted to the University of Arkansas School of Law. Hunt was the first African-American student admitted to the university since Reconstruction and was also the first admitted for graduate or professional studies in any white Southern university. He is shown here filling out forms in the office of the dean on February 2, 1948.
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