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Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Growing Up In Phillips County

CARRIE YOUNG

Carrie Young recalls growing up in on a farm, moving to West Helena, Arkansas, with her family, and meeting civil rights organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), including Myrtle Glascoe, Bill Hansen, and Howard Himmelbaum. She remembers registering voters, gathering signatures to overturn a poll tax, and protesting at the Arkansas state capitol. She discusses her marriage to Howard Himmelbaum, suing her employer for discrimination, and working with the group Black United Youth in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Hi! I am Lee Young and I was born in Helena and worked for the Helena World many years ago when it was owned by the Young family [no relation]. I hope you enjoy this history blog about Helena and Phillips County. If you wish to contact me, my email is recorder169@yahoo.com

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Union troops aboard steamer at Helena

Union troops aboard steamer at Helena

Helena's First Mass Transit

Helena's First Mass Transit

Yankee gun battery on picket duty during a flood in Civil War Helena

Yankee gun battery on picket duty during a flood in Civil War Helena

Southland College in what is now West Helena

Southland College in what is now West Helena

Conway Twitty, Helena native and famous C&W artist

Conway Twitty, Helena native and famous C&W artist

Helena ferry, early 1960s

Helena ferry, early 1960s

Jefferson School in Helena

Jefferson School in Helena

Railroad ferry at Helena

Railroad ferry at Helena

Helena Opera House

Helena Opera House

Freed Slave Quarters At Helena

Freed Slave Quarters At Helena

HELENA FEDERAL COURTHOUSE 1900

HELENA FEDERAL COURTHOUSE 1900

View of the original Fort Curtis

View of the original Fort Curtis

Great Flood of 1927 near Elaine

Great Flood of 1927 near Elaine

Civil War Cemetery

Civil War Cemetery

U.S. Army At Elaine Riot

U.S. Army At Elaine Riot

Black journalist Ida B. Wells covered Elaine riot trial

Black journalist Ida B. Wells covered Elaine riot trial

Magnolia Hill B-and-B, Helena's Haunted House

Magnolia Hill B-and-B, Helena's Haunted House

"Fido the barber" stands in front of the Helena Doughboy in this undated photo from the 1930s. It shows the original bayonet, but already bent slightly downward.

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