THIS DATE IN ARKANSAS HISTORY 11-Apr 1869 Arkansas statute makes it a crime for unmarried persons to cohabit as husband and wife, in attempt to promote the institution of marriage and prohibit the public scandal and disgrace of such immoral connections. 11-Apr 1935 Home of E B McKinney, Vice President of Southern Tenant Farmers Union, riddled with bullets after he fails to leave Marked Tree as ordered by planters. 11-Apr 1968 Federal Judge Henley rules that First Amendment right to associate with others of same political persuasion in the advocacy of principles and candidates is chilled by unilateral disclosure. 11-Apr 1985 Studs Terkel, Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lecturer, talked about history and ordinary people at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Fine Arts Concert Hall. 11-Apr 1987 Former Alabama Congressman John H. Buchanan Jr., chairman of People for the American Way, gives Conway speech entitled Censorship in a Free Society: Its a Bad Match. 11-Apr 2005 Act 1843 extends legal protection for remarks by citizens on issues of public concern and discourages strategic lawsuits against public participation against individual citizens. 11-Apr 1920 Arkansas Supreme Court rejects argument of Mama Coal Company that it was not responsible for death of Curtis Herron, 17, caught under wheels of coal car, claiming they were not responsible because his father consented to son working there. 11-Apr 1988 Little Rock Police Chief Jess F. (Doc) Hale commits suicide after being charged with misdemeanor theft of money from a cash register at Buice Drug Store at Little Rock. 11-Apr 1996 Art Lockhart, former Director of the Department of Correction, indicted by federal grand jury on mail fraud charges in scam to buy used irrigation equipment above value from State Representative Lloyd George. 11-Apr 2000 Phillips County Quorum Court members appointed T. L. Green as Phillips County Sheriff, first African-American Sheriff in Arkansas. 11-Apr 1899 Fort Smith sends 100 businessmen as delegates to meeting of the State Board of Trade in Little Rock, demanding that the recently enacted Rector Anti-Trust law be repealed.
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