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100 YEARS AGO March 24, 1914

The Arkansas Supreme Court yesterday reversed the finding of the Pulaski Circuit Court giving Mary Hampton, a negress, judgement for $400 damages against the Little Rock Railway and Electric Company. The negress claimed damages on ground that the conductor forced her to move to make room for white people in the front portion of a street car. This act of the conductor was upheld in the reversing opinion by Justice Smith.

50 YEARS AGO March 24, 1964

Atty. Gen. Bruce Bennett warned parents today not to involve their children in school boycotts. A boycott proposal was made Saturday by two predominantly Negro groups, as a protest against the rate of desegregation. Bennett said parents who keep their children away from school would be violating three Arkansas statutes, and subject to fines and possible imprisonment. The statutes could be generally grouped as compulsory attendance laws.

25 YEARS AGO March 24, 1989

The higher their grade, the lower Arkansas students tend to do on national standardized tests, an examination of statewide scores for fourth-, seventh- and 10th-graders indicates. “But it’s not the decline in the quality of education from fourth-grade to 10thgrade. … (older students) just aren’t as concerned about pleasing their teachers,” said Lynda White, coordinator of curriculum and assessment. However, the scores of Arkansas 10th-graders are steadily improving and for the first time last year, they scored above the national average on all five sections of the Metropolitan Achievement Test, Sixth-Edition, or, MAT6.

10 YEARS AGO March 24, 2004

What seemed inevitable finally happened as the price of gasoline in Arkansas and across the country has reached an all-time high, according to a report Tuesday from AAA. That means a record average price of $1.65 a gallon for regular unleaded in Arkansas and $1.74 for the nation. The good news is things stand to moderate a bit beginning next month, according to Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service in New Jersey. “I think the prices you see between now and Easter Sunday will be [the] highest you will see for a while,” Kloza said in an e-mail. “I think most of April, May and early June will see softer prices, as we drift down from these frothy numbers.”

Arkansas, Pages 8 on 03/24/2014

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