Executive Correspondence – Courtesy cards received on 08/08/05 from Representative John Boozman (3rd, AR) thanking BRAC Commission staff members Ken Small, Dierdre Walsh, Jennifer Meyer, Colleen Turner, Brad McCree, and Christine Hill for meeting with him and the 188th at the BRAC Commission.

Letter from David S. Kennard to his mother, Sarah Kennard from Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas discussing his marching from Dangerfield and their continued marching into Little Rock to meet up with his regiment. Mentions meeting soldiers who were discharged because of their age. He met several soldiers in Washington who were in his company and left behind because of sickness and Mart White, who had died. He also discusses the high prices of corn and paper.

Parent map for Bowie County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:19,000.

Parent map for Bowie County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:19,000.

Index map for Bowie County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:97,233.

Parent map for Bowie County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:19,000.

Parent map for Bowie County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:19,000.

Inset map for Bowie County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:11,000.

Parent map for Bowie County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:19,000.

Parent map for Bowie County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:19,000.

Inset map for Bowie County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:11,000.

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the case against James Townley.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Interview with Willa Mae Bateman concerning her recollections of the Crater of Diamonds and diamond mining growing up in Murfreesboro, Arkansas.

Parent map for Bowie County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:19,000.

Postcard from Captain Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon informing her that he received her letter and about his travels. The front of the post card has an illustration of the National Bank of South Dakota in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean discussing payments to H. Kempner Firm, a sugar trade, family stock shares at Imperial Sugar, death and sickness in the community, and farming operations.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a jury deliberating on the case of James Townley.

Report regarding ion chamber measurements made of the external environmental radiation in various location in the United States during the summer of 1957.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of hills of Arkansas which awaits Valley View shoppers , throughout the mall, demonstrations of the folk way of life.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the exhibit, sponsored by the Ozark Folk Center which is designed to bring attention to a month long folk festival at the location of the state park in Mountain View Arkansas.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dated 7/1/2005 to the Chairman from Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas stating that the Governor will be unable to attend BRAC Commission meeting in San Antonio. He expresses his support to maintain the Red River Army Depot in Texas and the 188th Fighter Wing at Fort Smith, Ark.

Interview with L. Clifford Davis, an attorney known for his work for civil rights from Wilton, Arkansas. Davis discusses growing up in a segregated rural community, his education, time at Philander Smith College, integration in Arkansas, his efforts to gain admission to University of Arkansas Law School, becoming an attorney, reflections on civil rights legislation and its impact, practice in Fort Worth, his decision not to take part in direct action, cases fought, MLK's visit to DFW, supporting housing rights for blacks in Fort Worth, and reflections on inequality, current challenges, and civil responsibility. In appendix is a piece from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about Davis, and two photographs of him.