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All the News for March...1969

By Kyle Kellams

Published March 14, 2022 at 12:11 PM CDT

We use archives from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History to reflect on the news of March, 1969. Arkansas was considering a new constitution, NBA superstar Bill Russell came to Fayetteville and there was labor friction in Little Rock.

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