VINTAGE ISAAC GILLAM SON OF CIVIL WAR BUFFALO SOLDIER FUNERAL YALE U CHICAGO AR

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A rare document measuring approximately 9 x 6 inches when closed. Mr. Gillam's son was Director of NASA. Quite a family! Some notable African Americans attended his rites. See background history below. Thanks for looking.Gillam Family Isaac Gillam and his wife Cora A. (1846-1947) were both born into slavery. Isaac Gillam was a sergeant in the Arkansas Colored Infantry for the Union army during the Civil War. His kids were ??outstanding educators ? , while he was very politically active, serving as an alderman for the Little Rock City Council, and then ??in 1878 he was elected to the Arkansas State House of Representatives. ? ??Isaac and Cora Gillam were active in the establishment of Shorter College in North Little Rock, where their daughter Cora Alice Jr. (1874-1947) would later teach. ? Their son, Isaac Gillam, Jr. (1876-1953), studied at Howard, Yale, and the Universities of Chicago and Cincinnati, ??served as principal of Gibbs High School for over fifty years ? , and helped ??establish the Arkansas Negro Democratic Voters Association. ? Today, Little Rock ??s Gillam Park and Gillam School are named after this remarkable African American family. Note: Isaac Gillam is buried at the National Cemetery, Issac Gillam Jr. is buried at Fraternal, and Cora A. Gillam and Cora Alice Jr. are buried at Oakland proper. Source:arkansaspreservationdotcom Joseph Robert (J.R.) Booker was born in Helena (Phillips County), Arkansas, on September 19, 1893, and admitted to practice before the state supreme court on June 30, 1919. He was one of eight children born to Joseph A. Booker, a civil rights activist minister and educator, and Mary J. (Carver) Booker. Booker received a B.A. from Arkansas Baptist College in 1914, and obtained his legal education at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), graduating in 1917. He then returned to Little Rock (Pulaski County), Arkansas, to practice law. During World War I, Booker served in the U.S. Army during 1918-19. He also acted as Assistant Director of the War Finance Committee and was a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the State Military Affairs Committee. He was an active Republican and engaged in opposing the party ??s efforts to rid itself of Black participation. When the Republicans held their 1920 state convention in a segregated hotel, Booker, Scipio Jones, J.A. Hibbler, W.A. Singfield, W.L. Purifoy, and others attended and refused to leave until the lights were turned off. They then held their own separate convention. Booker worked with Scipio Jones in defending Black defendants arrested following the ??race riots ? near Elaine, Arkansas, in 1919. He was an early member of the first Arkansas branch of the NAACP in Little Rock in 1924. In 1930, along with his brother, William A. Booker, practicing as Booker &amp Booker, he joined with Scipio Jones and J.A. Hibbler in suing the Little Rock Democratic Central Committee on behalf of the Arkansas Negro Democratic Association for the right to vote in Democratic primaries. In 1943, Booker was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Booker ??s name appears as attorney of record in eight cases appealed to the state supreme court. Booker, Scipio Jones, J.A. Hibbler, Myles Hibbler, and the NAACP (through attorney Thurgood Marshall) successfully sued the Little Rock School District in 1942 on behalf of a Black teacher for equal pay with white teachers. In March 1946, Booker contacted the University of Arkansas School of Law on behalf of a young Black man who wanted to register and attend. At that time, the school did not accept Black students and he was unsuccessful. (That situation changed in 1948, when the first Black law student was registered at the university.) Booker was a local ??cooperating attorney ? with the NAACP in at least five other cases during the 1950s. In 1949-50, he was elected president of the National Bar Association, a national Black lawyers group. At various times, Booker also was a member o. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 63907-3790

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