Posted by BEN BEAUMONT – Dean of faculty at Emory University School of Law, Polly Price visited the Clinton School Tuesday to discuss her book about Judge Richard S. Arnold of Little Rock, who served on the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals from 1980-2004.
Price discussed Arnold’s transformation from someone who was embarrassed and disturbed by the 1957 Central High desegregation crisis as a young man to the judge who became a champion of civil rights in his handling of Little Rock desegregation cases in the 1980s and 90s.
Arnold wrote 16 opinions on Little Rock school desegregation and became looked upon as “a representative of Arkansas on the court,” Price said.
In her book, Price examines desegregation and other pressing federal court issues in the closing decades of the twentieth century, including the death penalty, abortion, free speech and voting rights.
Video of Price’s lecture will be posted soon at www.clintonschoolspeakers.com.
Polly Price signs copies of her book following her speech at the Clinton School.