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To: Sam who wrote (9668)	2/5/2017 7:56:33 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 357461

It wasn't only here. law2.umkc.edu

To: Sam who wrote (9668)	2/5/2017 11:00:24 PM
From: Katelew	Respond to of 357461

<<You could say that blacks were "OK with segregation", but you could also say that they were fearful of integration. The article below is from the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.>> Actually, I said that it was likely that many feared being bullied and ostracized. Particularly that part of Arkansas. The encyclopedia mentioned Lonoke county as being a pocket of extreme racism. My sister married and lived in the next county which is Prairie county. That whole area is rice, soy bean, and cotton growing country all the way east to Memphis. Sixty years ago, when I would spend parts of my high school summers at her home helping her with small children, I saw and heard ugly, ugly racist sentiments. I spoke out twice about it at a local country club and lived to regret it. Plus it got turned back on my poor sister who had to live around those people. But it all changed. This sister died almost exactly a year ago. I moved back into my mom's house in Little Rock for a few months and drove back and forth to help take care of her and saw the changes firsthand. Interracial marriages and children, easy going conversation between blacks and whites, all different now. Without going into why, I will say that it struck me that the most colorblind relationships seemed to be at the lowest socioeconomic levels. I had the feeling that much of the white population in that part of the state had drifted down and were on the same footing as most of the black population. There used to be small factories and plants that stretched in a row between Little Rock and Memphis. Those are all gone now just like in the midwest. Your article was really interesting. Since college, I've lived mainly in the northwest part of Arkansas. I learned all about the "sundown towns" and it did happen the way this article said. There were signs posted at the edge of those towns warning blacks to keep on moving. When we moved to Bentonville in the early 70s, I was told the signs started disappearing in the 50s. Still there were very few blacks to be seen. Only one family in Bentonville at the time.