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Submitted Photos/Joyce Amos Smith and Mary Jackson
Deacons Olen Satcher, and F.D. Kirkpatrick, middle, stand with associate Willie Stringer. Kirkpatrick and Satcher were coaches at Jackson High School in Jonesboro.

In Jonesboro, black citizens confronted prejudice

On a July night in Jonesboro in 1964, the rumble of engines encroached on a quiet, black neighborhood then known as “The Quarters.” As residents stepped out onto their porches, they observed a line

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