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Box Manuscript Collections Oversize Box 8

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Personal items pertaining to Suzanne Lighton's birth, childhood, high school, and college- Oversize

 File — Box: Manuscript Collections Oversize Box 8, Folder: MC 779, Folder: Box 17 Folder 1
Identifier: MC 779 5
Scope and Contents From the Series: Suzanne Chalfant Lighton (frequently called Peggy Sue) was born 24 July 1905 in Omaha, Nebraska. After graduation from the University of Arkansas in 1925, and her unsuccessful attempt to become a newspaper reporter in California, she did some free-lance writing, then read law with Judge Lee Seamster of Fayetteville and became a lawyer in 1933. She was active in politics (she organized the Arkansas State Democratic Women's Club) and community affairs (in particular, Red Cross blood drives,...
Dates: 1828-1987