calsfoundation@cals.org
March 20, 2003
Fred Darragh died at the age of eighty-six. Darragh was a Little Rock (Pulaski County) businessman known for his philanthropic support of Arkansas’s social justice organizations, libraries, and liberal political causes, along with his efforts to educate Arkansans about foreign countries and cultures. The Central Arkansas Library System’s Darragh Center for Intellectual Freedom and an annual lecture series at the library honor his decades of support.