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14-581: Edgewood School may refer to: United States [ edit ] Edgewood Elementary School , Pine Bluff, Arkansas Edgewood Elementary School ; Brooklyn Park, Minnesota Edgewood Elementary School ; Edgewood, Maryland Elsewhere [ edit ] Edgewood Elementary School , Prince George, British Columbia , Canada Edgewood Elementary School , Edgewood, British Columbia , Canada See also [ edit ] Edgewood Primary School , Hucknall, England [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

28-559: A Bachelor of Laws . He was admitted to the bar in 1930 and commenced practice in El Dorado , the seat of government of Union County, Arkansas . Harris served as deputy prosecuting attorney in Union County from 1933 to 1936 and as prosecuting attorney of the 13th Judicial Circuit of Arkansas from 1937 to 1940. He served as delegate to the Democratic state conventions in 1936 and 1940, and

42-504: A portion of the students going to the Watson Chapel school district. In 2007, the ACLU sued the school district because the dress code allegedly denied students their first amendment rights. It had 3,871 students in the 1969–1970 school year, with more than half within the city limits of Pine Bluff. That year the four schools for white children had 2,135 white students and 96 black students;

56-717: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Edgewood Elementary School (Arkansas) Watson Chapel School District No. 24 ( WCSD ) is a public school district serving the communities of Pine Bluff (including Watson Chapel ) and Sulphur Springs within Jefferson County, Arkansas , United States . Headquartered in Pine Bluff, Watson Chapel School District employs over 300 faculty and staff to provide educational programs for students ranging from kindergarten through twelfth grade and enrolls more than 2,200 students. In 1971

70-475: The Democratic National Conventions in 1944 , 1952 , 1956 , and 1960 . In 1940, Harris was elected as United States Representative for Arkansas's 7th congressional district , which in 1950 was redistricted to 4th district , encompassing the southern portion of the state. He served without interruption for more than twenty-five years, from January 3, 1941, until February 2, 1966. He was

84-574: The Watson Chapel School Board to desegregate schools. Prior to that order black students largely attended two schools while white students attended four of them. Under the judge's orders there would be a single high school, Watson Chapel High School , a single middle school, the former Coleman High School /Coleman Elementary School, and four elementary schools. In 1979 the Jefferson County School District dissolved, with

98-584: The chairman of the Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, where in 1959 he presided over hearings on the " quiz show scandal ." In the 1960s, Harris was the chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce ( Eighty-fifth through Eighty-ninth Congresses). He was the lead House sponsor of the Kefauver Harris Amendment , an amendatory act to

112-720: The district covered 125 square miles (320 km ) of land. All schools in the district are accredited by AdvancED (formerly the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools). Initially the Dollarway School District (DSD) sent older white students to Watson Chapel High School and other area high schools, as it did not have its own high school for white students nor one for black students. In 1957 DSD opened its own high school for white children, Dollarway High School . District Court for Eastern District of Arkansas judge Oren Harris , in 1971, ordered

126-619: The federal Pure Food and Drug Act , the law that mandates that pharmaceutical companies disclose the side effects of medications approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for sale in the United States. Harris was a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education . At

140-619: The judicial oath and commenced service on February 3, 1966. He served as Chief Judge of the Western District from 1967 to 1973. He assumed senior status on February 3, 1976, but maintained a full docket of cases until about the last year of his life, when his health began to fail. His service terminated on February 5, 1997, due to his death of pneumonia in Little Rock , Arkansas. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of

154-495: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edgewood_Elementary_School&oldid=1208916609 " Category : Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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168-618: The special general election. Harris was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 26, 1965, to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas , to a new joint seat authorized by 75 Stat. 80. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 11, 1965, and received his commission on August 12, 1965. He took

182-474: The time of Harris's resignation, the entire Arkansas congressional delegation had been in office since 1953 or earlier, and the prolonged period without an open seat had created a backlog of candidates awaiting a vacancy. In a special Democratic primary, future United States Senator David Pryor defeated future federal judge Richard S. Arnold and several other candidates. Pryor then took the position after he defeated Republican A. Lynn Lowe of Texarkana in

196-1042: The two schools for black children had 1,640 students, with all being black. In 1971 the schools had 3,750 students, with about 45% of them being black. 34°11′22″N 92°03′59″W  /  34.1895°N 92.0664°W  / 34.1895; -92.0664 Oren Harris Born in Belton, a historical populated place, in Hempstead County near Hope, Arkansas , Harris attended public schools in Prescott in Nevada County, Arkansas . In 1929, he graduated from Henderson State College in Arkadelphia, Arkansas , receiving an Artium Baccalaureus degree. Thereafter in 1930, he completed law school at Cumberland School of Law , then part of Cumberland University , in Lebanon, Tennessee , receiving

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