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The records pertain to the creation, organization, and functioning of the Council, and to the activities and interests of its officers, directors, staff, membership, supporters and opponents in regard to race relations in Arkansas. They include office files and sound recordings.

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Typescript minutes of the Arkansas Woman's Suffrage Association's organizational meeting, May 13, 1915; its October 25, 1915, meeting; and an executive board meeting of July 16, [1916?], held in Little Rock (Pulaski County) with representatives from across the state.

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The Cotnam papers consist of speeches, speech notes, newspaper and magazine articles, and notebooks regarding suffrage, citizenship, World War I, democracy, and postwar relations; records of suffrage clubs and women's clubs; personal papers of Florence and Nell Cotnam; printed items, including publications of the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company; postcards; photographs; and miscellaneous objects.

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Papers include absentee voter forms, correspondence, press releases, reports, and miscellaneous papers.

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, reports, speeches, bulletins, and other records created or received by Lessie Stringfellow Read of Fayetteville, Ark., who was, at various times, State Chairman of Publicity for the Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs; Arkansas editor of the General Federation of Women's Clubs' General Federation Magazine, and Publicity Chairman for the GFWC. Most of the records, dated circa 1918-1922, pertain to the...