The 2017 Clements Award winners Steven K. Riley (left), Whitney Walker and Amy Madsen (second from right) pose with Bess and Tyler Abell next to a bust of Earle C. Clements at M.I. King Library Building. UK Photo |...
Nov. 1947: A group of Arkansas officials standing in front of one of the “Friendship Train” cars to be sent to France in the late 1940s. Courtesy of the Arkansas State Archives. http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2681 #GRATITUDE #RESISTANCE #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain70 © The...
Bastille Day 2017: La Légion étrangère avec l’Armée française et l’Armée américaine/The French Foreign Legion with the French Army and the U.S. Army. #GRATITUDE #RESISTANCE #FREEDOMOFTHEPRESS #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain70 © The Official French-American Project entirely conceived by Ms. Elisabeth...
The poet Alan Seeger (1888-1916) as French legionnaire in 1916 Photograph: HUD 3567.219.2 no. 296, Harvard University Archives http://harvardmagazine.com/2016/11/alan-seeger #GRATITUDE #RESISTANCE #FREEDOMOFTHEPRESS #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain70 © The Official French-American Project entirely conceived by Ms. Elisabeth JENSSEN to celebrate the...
Tyler Abell Interview Date: Thursday, July 21, 2011 http://www.cagtown.com/oral-history/abell-tyler #GRATITUDE #RESISTANCE #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain70 © The Official French-American Project entirely conceived by Ms. Elisabeth JENSSEN to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Friendship Train and the Merci Train (2017- 2019)....
Civil rights leaders meet with President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson. Civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr., A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, and John Lewis meet with President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson to discuss Civil Rights,...