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  1. www.jstor.org › stable › 40030926Noblesse Oblige and Practical Politics: Winthrop Rockefeller -...

    4. Mai 2024 · WINTHROP ROCKEFELLER 3 1 D. Rockefeller, Winthrop's grandfather, made his first gift to African-American education in June 1882, when he gave $250 to the Atlanta Female Baptist Seminary, a school for black women. On Winthrop's paternal grandmother's side, the fight to uplift African Americans predated the Civil War. As a girl, Laura Spelman ...

  2. encyclopediaofarkansas.net › entries › world-war-ii-throughWorld War II through the Faubus Era, 1941 through 1967

    21. Mai 2024 · A significant number of these new voters cast their first ballots for Winthrop Rockefeller, who ran for governor in 1964 and again in 1968. Faubus’s long tenure as governor had given him unprecedented influence over government agencies and their clients.

  3. www.uapress.com › winthrop-rockefeller-wins-the-j-g-ragsdaleWinthrop Rockefeller wins the J.G. Ragsdale Book Award

    8. Mai 2024 · May 8, 2024 | American History, Arkansas and the Region, Award. Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912–1956 by John Kirk, has won the 2024 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association.

  4. encyclopediaofarkansas.net › entries › modern-era-1968-throughDivergent Prosperity and the Arc of Reform, 1968–2022

    21. Mai 2024 · The scope and abrupt swing of Arkansas from a one-party Democratic state to a one-party Republican state defied plausible analysis but in the aftermath, confounded Winthrop Rockefeller’s conviction that a strengthened GOP would stoke a competitive party system.

  5. www.uapress.com › summer-sale-arkansas-history-award-winnersSummer Sale! Arkansas History Award Winners

    Vor einem Tag · John Kirk’s biography of Winthrop Rockefeller won the 2024 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association, given to the year’s best book on Arkansas history. In this richly detailed biography, Kirk examines the questions of why Rockefeller, scion of one of the most powerful families in American history, left New York for an Arkansas mountaintop in the 1950s.

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › 1968_United_States_presidential_election1968 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

    Vor 2 Tagen · Nixon entered the Republican primaries as the front-runner, defeating liberal New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, conservative governor of California Ronald Reagan, and other candidates to win his party's nomination.

  7. www.britannica.com › biography › John-D-Rockefeller-JrJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr. | Oil Tycoon, Industrialist, Financier

    9. Mai 2024 · son Winthrop Rockefeller. (Show more) John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (born January 29, 1874, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.—died May 11, 1960, Tucson, Arizona) was an American philanthropist, the only son of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and heir to the Rockefeller fortune, who built Rockefeller Center in New York City and was instrumental in the ...