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Civic activist for women's issues; a founder and charter member of the UCA Women's Giving Circle [16] Joyce Williams Warren (1949–) 2023 Arkansas’ first black female judge, and multiple other firsts for black women [17] Dorothy McFadden Hoover (1918–2000) 2023 American physicist and mathematician [18] Adolphine Fletcher Terry (1882–1976 ...
Following reorganization in 2019, Arkansas state government's executive branch contains fifteen cabinet-level departments. Many formerly independent departments were consolidated as "divisions" under newly created departments under a shared services model.
Arkansas Equal Suffrage Association (AESA), organized in 1888. [1] Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs (AFWC). [2] Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), formed in 1881. [1] The second iteration of the Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), created in 1914. [3] It was also known as the Arkansas Equal Suffrage Central Committee (AESCC ...
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The group was formed partly because of a pro-women's suffrage article written by Mrs. D. D. Terry in the Arkansas Gazette. [18] Minnie Rutherford Fuller, a social activist, was one of the founders of PEL. [23] For Fuller, women's suffrage would help the passage of the kinds of reforms and community improvement that she supported. [23]
In response to the crisis, Adolphine Terry, Vivion Brewer, and Velma Powell formed the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC). [1]: 195 Terry, then a 75-year-old woman, was a Vassar graduate, the widow of Congressman David D. Terry, [2]: 346 [3] and highly influential in her community.
Women's Softball: The Arkansas Razorback softball team plays their home games at Bogle Park, located on the University of Arkansas campus. Bogle Park was made possible thanks to the lead gift made by Bob and Marilyn Bogle and the Bogle family, who have also made significant contributions to the university and the Athletics Department over the ...
Posthumously, the University of Arkansas established a memorial bookshelf in her honor [30] and in 1959 named a women's residence hall in her honor. [34] In 1961, a new public library was built bearing her name [35] and the dining hall of the Northwest Quad residence halls at the University of Arkansas was renamed in her honor in 2012. [36]