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Associated Press Getting Ready for School Monday

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09731.02 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Little Rock, Arkansas Type: Photograph Date: 21 September 1957 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w Height: 20.7 cm, Width: 25.4 cm Order a Copy

One wirephoto entitled, "Getting Ready for School Monday," taken by Associated Press dated September 21, 1957. Image is of a gardener in front of Little Rock Central High School. Wire transfer information states that man pictured is Ashley Williams, yardman at Little Rock Central High School.

Williams, Ashley, fl. 1957
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1945 to the Present
African American History
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