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To our mayor, the city manager, bruce moore, the city board of directors of little rock, to skip rutherford, to the 60th anniversary committee, and for most of all, the little rock nine and their families. We welcome you to the 60th Educational Forum for the city of little rock and the state of arkansas. We thank you for being here and we hope something is said or done that will give you a better understanding when you leave here today and let me digress for a minute, and say that the naacp was the organization that worked and spearheaded the little rock 9. A terrible time in our history. I remind you this was way before the march on washington. Its way before in 1964 civil the 1964 civil rights act. It is way before the 1965 Voting Rights act. People wanted to do to get an education. That is all they were trying to do. But our system at that time said , you will not be abl ....
The west posted something. Western historian paul hutton delivered the keynote address. He described how william cody became a symbol of the frontier and influenced american perception of western culture. This is just over an hour. Welcome, everyone, to the final event of what has been a terrific three days. You know, when you start to plan these things, and you think we will have this person and that person and do all this stuff. There was this moment when we started to put the program on paper and said we have 36 different speakers on this thing. It exceeded our expectations certainly. So thank you to everyone for all the terrific presentations. Thanks very much. [applause] and this wont be the last you will have heard from the gathered scholars. We are going to compile an edit a new volume in our women f. Cody series of the American West with the university of oklahoma press. All of the presenters are invited, as they know, to s ....