Martha Dixon, a life-long resident of Clark County, has used her degree in fashion design from Commercial Technical Institute in Little Falls, N.J., to create two successful fashion businesses. Her company, Martha's Fashion Design, produces tailor-made suits, gowns and mother of the bride dresses.

Her career began in 1985 when she began taking her creations door to door in the Heights area of Little Rock. Even though she had more doors closed on her than were opened, her designs caught the eye of a Height's boutique, Casey's Cachet. Two weeks later, the boutique informed Dixon that First La...(more)

An accomplished actress born in Malvern Arkansas, Fran Bennett earned a BS, MS and credit toward a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has acted in New York in such plays as Mandingo with the late Franchot Tone, The Cantilevered Terrace with Mildred Dunnock, Comedy of Errors, In White America and Mahalia. Ms. Bennett has done summer stock including Finian?s Rainbow, Pal Joe and Here Today with the late Tallulah Bankhead, who introduced her on Johnny Carson?s The Tonight Show. Fran was the voice and movement director of the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis for 12 years as well as a...(more)

Louis Thomas Jordan was born on July 8, 1908 in Brinkley, Arkansas. The son of a musician, he learned to play the saxophone as a youth and majored in music later at the Arkansas Baptist College. He also toured with the famed Rabbit Foot Minstrels, who were the backing musicians for a number of blues legends. In the mid-Thirties, Jordan, now an accomplished jazz saxophonist, moved to New York, working with such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong. He joined drummer Chick Webb's swing band in 1936.

After honing up his singing skills, he left the band in 1938 to start up his own band. Called the El...(more)

Among nearly 20,000 players to play Major League Baseball, Brock is the 22nd all-time hits leader with 3,023 lifetime hits and he is the 2nd all-time stolen base leader with 938 lifetime stolen bases. He was inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame in 1985. He was named one of the TOP 100 PLAYERS of the 20th Century. The Lou Brock statue is mounted in the St. Louis Cardinal's statue pavilion at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Brock began his 19-year career with the Chicago Cubs. He was traded three years later to the St. Louis Cardinals. During the next 16 years with the Cardinals he became one of th...(more)

David L. Evans is a native of Phillips County, Ark., and holds degrees in electrical engineering from Tennessee State University and Princeton. Before coming to Harvard he worked in Huntsville, Ala., on the Saturn/Apollo Project that landed a man on the moon in 1969. While in Huntsville he began a voluntary, one-man college recruiting and placement effort for African-American youth who were admitted to many of the nation's top colleges. His work was covered by the news media, and he was offered jobs by the College Entrance Examination Board, Harvard College, and Massachusetts Institute of Tech...(more)

Dr. Sybil Jordan Hampton - Born in Springfield, Missouri, Sybil Jordan Hampton spent all of her childhood and adolescent years in Little Rock Arkansas. After a lengthy career in education that took her away from her home state, Dr. Hampton returned to Little Rock to become President of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.

She was one of the first African American students to graduate from Central High School. After graduating from high school she received the National Scholarship Service and fund for Negro Students Supplemental Scholarship and the Freedman's Scholarship. She was in fact, th...(more)