A panel that includes journalists who reported from the scene of the integration of Little Rock Central High School in 1957 will speak about media coverage during that period.
The event, which is organized by the Society of Professional Journalists Arkansas Pro Chapter, is scheduled from 6 p.m.-7:45 p.m. Wednesday at the Darragh Center Auditorium in the Central Arkansas Library System Main Library, 100 S. Rock St. in downtown Little Rock.
Scheduled panelists are:
• Ernie Dumas, a columnist with the Arkansas Times and a former reporter and editor for the Arkansas Gazette.
• Phyllis Brandon, a former reporter and editor for the Arkansas Democrat and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
• Bill Lewis, a former Arkansas Gazette reporter.
• John Kirk, the George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and director of the UALR Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity. He is also a commentator on civil rights history on KUAR 89.1 FM in Little Rock.
• Tafi Mukunyadzi, a reporter with The Associated Press.
Dumas, Brandon and Lewis were reporters at Little Rock's daily newspapers in 1957.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Metro on 09/12/2017