Jerry Damerow wasn t born or raised in Arkansas. Some years ago, he and his wife, Sherri, were residents of New York state s affluent Westchester County, thanks to Jerry s work as a managing partner in the major accounting firm Ernst & Young. The Damerows had already spent five successful years for the company in Indonesia.
The author of a new biography of former Arkansas Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller and the executive director/chief executive officer of the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute will give a talk Oct. 19 in Little Rock.
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Discover Sue Cowan Williams, an early Civil Rights advocate in Arkansas, who sued the Little Rock School District for equal pay in 1942. With Thurgood Marshall at her side, she paved the way for social justice work in Arkansas.
On this episode, we take a deep dive into early Civil Rights by examining the life and social justice advocacy of Sue Cowan Williams and foundational work of the NAACP in Arkansas and beyond.
Historian John Kirk is our guest and shares his lecture on teacher pay equalization laws suits and rare audio recordings of Cowan Williams from the 1990s, where they discussed her leadership role in the law suit, her personal sacrifices, collateral damages and outcomes of the suit.