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Preacher, NAACP figure clash over Hot Springs leadership
Kenneth Adair, vice president of Garland County NAACP, rebukes Rev. Thomas McVeigh Smith who says the local chapter lacked leadership before his arrival. Adair pledges to seek a new president while affirming continued NAACP function despite disagreements over civil rights focus and other issues. Smith, recently reassigned, says apathy killed the chapter. his term ends January 1965.
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Hot Springs, Ark
Kenneth Adair
Garland County
NAACP
Thomas McVeigh Smith
Hot Springs
Father Smith
Adair
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North Little Rock
Associated Press
Apathy
L. C. Bates
Daisy Bates
Smith
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