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Oral history interview and transcript conducted by Walter L. Brown, Bruce Parham, and Samuel A. Sizer at Fort Smith, Arkansas, March 18, 1976 with John Elvis Miller. Interview conducted at Miller's office in the U.S. Post Office building, Fort Smith, Arkansas. In the interview Miller discusses his youth, the Elaine, Arkansas race riots of 1919, and his political career.

Scope and Content Note Letters, papers, scrapbooks, and photographs pertaining to the Seat-Cypert-Spore families of Searcy, Arkansas. Series one holds papers pertaining to the Seat family, including an autobiographical sketch of Captain Benton Bell Seat and diaries kept by him after he moved to Arkansas in 1903. Series two holds papers dealing with the Cypert family, from Jesse Newton Cypert to the five children of Judge Eugene Cypert. Materials concerning the Hardy-Haymond-Crow families, relatives of...