July 7, 1969

The Council for the Liberation of Blacks (CLOB), established earlier that year in Hot Springs (Garland County), addressed the Hot Springs City Council about discriminatory practices in the city. Although in existence for less than two years, CLOB advocated for downtown businesses to hire more Black workers and protested the exclusion of African American contestants from the Miss Arkansas Pageant, paving the way for the first Black contestant in the pageant the following year.