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The '''Little Rock Housing Association''' was founded by [[Adolphine Terry]], [[Erle Chambers]], and [[Edwin Dunaway]] in 1939. The purpose of the association was to capture some of the federal dollars available for "slum clearance" under the 1937 federal Housing Authority Act. | The '''Little Rock Housing Association''' was founded by [[Adolphine Terry]], [[Erle Chambers]], and [[Edwin Dunaway]] in 1939. The purpose of the association was to capture some of the federal dollars available for "slum clearance" under the 1937 federal Housing Authority Act. | ||
| − | The group was initially opposed by Little Rock mayor Satterfield and [[Redding Stevenson]] of the [[Little Rock Realtors Association]]. | + | The group was initially opposed by Little Rock mayor [[J. V. Satterfield Jr.]] and [[Redding Stevenson]] of the [[Little Rock Realtors Association]]. |
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 23:01, 8 September 2008
The Little Rock Housing Association was founded by Adolphine Terry, Erle Chambers, and Edwin Dunaway in 1939. The purpose of the association was to capture some of the federal dollars available for "slum clearance" under the 1937 federal Housing Authority Act.
The group was initially opposed by Little Rock mayor J. V. Satterfield Jr. and Redding Stevenson of the Little Rock Realtors Association.
References
- Sara Alderman Murphy, Breaking the Silence: Little Rock's Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, 1958-1963 (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1997), 20.
