February 15, 2006: Headlines: COS - Colombia: Writing - Colombia: Civil Rights: Benton Courier: Colombia RPCV Grif Stockley to speak on book about Daisy Bates
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February 15, 2006: Headlines: COS - Colombia: Writing - Colombia: Civil Rights: Benton Courier: Colombia RPCV Grif Stockley to speak on book about Daisy Bates
Colombia RPCV Grif Stockley to speak on book about Daisy Bates
Stockley is completing a history of race relations in Arkansas in time for the 50th anniversary of the Central High School desegregation crisis, to be observed in 2007. In addition to his recent book, Stockley is also the author of six novels: “Expert Testimony,” “Probable Cause,” “Religious Conviction,” “Illegal Motion,” “Blind Judgment” and “Salted with Fire.” He has won the Porter Prize for fiction and is a member of the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame. He represented indigents as a legal services attorney for 29 years and is a former Peace Corps volunteer to Colombia.
Colombia RPCV Grif Stockley to speak on book about Daisy Bates
Arkansas author to speak on book about Daisy Bates
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:40 PM CST
Arkansas author Grif Stockley, the Dee Brown Fellow for the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies in Little Rock, will be at Herzfeld Memorial Library in Benton on Thursday night to speak about his new book, “Daisy Bates Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas.”
The session is set from 7 to 8 p.m.
University of Mississippi Press is publisher of Stockley's book.
The local presentation is sponsored by the David O. Demuth Arkansas Room of the Saline County Library.
Stockley is completing a history of race relations in Arkansas in time for the 50th anniversary of the Central High School desegregation crisis, to be observed in 2007.
In addition to his recent book, Stockley is also the author of six novels: “Expert Testimony,” “Probable Cause,” “Religious Conviction,” “Illegal Motion,” “Blind Judgment” and “Salted with Fire.”
His first non-fiction work, “Blood in their Eyes: The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919,” published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2001, won the Booker-Worthen Prize and received a Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History.
He has won the Porter Prize for fiction and is a member of the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame. He represented indigents as a legal services attorney for 29 years and is a former Peace Corps volunteer to Colombia.
Daisy Bates, who played an important role in the desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School, and her husband, L.C. Bates, published the Arkansas State Press, an African-American newspaper which helped the civil rights movement in Arkansas and the nation.
She was the only woman invited to speak at the Lincoln Memorial ceremony in the March on Washington in 1963.
Books will be for sale and will be autographed by the author.
For more information, call the library at 778-4766.
The library is located at 1800 Smithers Drive.
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