Noma Watkins Materials
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Scope and Content Note
Materials include applications, petitions, notes, correspondence, pamphlets, manuals, folders, constitutions, by-laws, resolutions, bills, bill amendments, directories, workbooks, newsletters, newspaper and magazine clippings, name tags, napkin, receipt, maps, tote bag, and city report.
Dates
- 1990-1997
Creator
- Watkins, Noma (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Access Information
Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.
Use Information
No Use Restrictions Apply.
No Interlibrary Loan.
Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Biographical Note
Noma Watkins of Warren, Bradley County, Arkansas, served as a delegate to the 1992, 1994, and 1996 sessions of the Arkansas Silver Haired Legislature. In 1997, she served as a delegate from Arkansas to the Inaugural Session of the National Silver Haired Congress.
The first Silver Haired Legislature program was organized in 1973 in Missouri as a mock legislature of senior citizens; since then, thirty-one other states have implemented Silver Haired Legislature programs. The Arkansas Silver Haired Legislature has met every two years since 1978. Its purpose is to address and bring to the attention of the General Arkansas Assembly the state-level concerns of Arkansas seniors. The Arkansas Silver Haired Legislature is sponsored by the Division of Aging and Adult Services and the Arkansas Area Agencies on Aging.
The Silver Haired Legislature program organized on a national level in 1997 with the inaugural session of the National Silver Haired Congress (NSHC). The NSHC is a nonpartisan mock legislature consisting of 100 Silver Representatives and 435 Silver Senators, all United States citizens who are at least sixty years of age. The Silver Senators are elected or appointed to serve a four-year term; the Silver Representatives are elected or appointed to serve a two-year term. Silver Senators and Silver Representatives are elected at a state-level by registered voters who are at least sixty years of age. Since 1997, The NSHC has met annually in Washington, DC, to consider federal-level issues affecting senior citizens.
Extent
2.5 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Acquisition Information
The Noma Watkins Materials were donated to Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, on December 18, 2006 by Noma Watkins .
Processing Information
Processed by the Special Collections Department in 2008.
- Title
- Noma Watkins Materials
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2008
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Department Repository
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444
specoll@uark.edu