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- Member of: Billie Maxwell and the White Mountain Orchestra
- Member of: Martin Luther King Jr. at Arizona State University
G. Homer Durham, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, an unidentified participant, Rev. Louis Eaton, and Msgr. Robert Donohoe at Arizona State University's Goodwin Stadium.
Lincoln Ragsdale at the podium in Arizona State University's Goodwin Stadium. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy are visible.
Selected correspondence from volume 819 and volume 1113 of ASU President G. Homer Durham's papers regarding planning for and reaction to Dr. King's visit to ASU. Especially noteworthy is President Durham's June 4, 1964 letter to John G. Babbitt, President of the Arizona Board of Regents, providing details about how the event was organized and his perceptions of Dr. King's presentation. On June 9th, President Harvill of the University of Arizona wrote with a message of support and acknowledgement of King's previous appearances at that institution.
This article comments on Billie Maxwell's "The Cowboy's Wife," describes John Dixon's and Al Perry's efforts to obtain an original copy of Maxwell's record, provides a biographical sketch of Billie Maxwell, and discusses her musical career, the White Mountain Orchestra, and conditions in Nutrioso, Arizona in the 1920s.