My family tree

My father's family is from Little Rock, Arkansas. Most of my uncles and aunts went to Central High School which was the site for the famous Little Rock Nine integration of schools. My father drove by one day and offered words of support to Daisy Bates. A police officer promptly knocked him out cold and jailed him for drunkenness and resisting arrest. Mrs. Bates called my mother to let her know what happened to my father. Click on the newspaper article from the Arkansas Gazette in 1960.