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Podcast: Up in Your Business with Kerry McCoy
Episode: Sybil Jordan Hampton, Sybil Hampton & Associates
Description: Listen to Learn:
How the church influenced Dr. Hampton’s civic involvement
The myriad of tests that African Americans had to pass in order to be considered for integration
History of the Little Rock Nine
What she learned after traveling through Arkansas about the population she sees as at the most economic risk.
Sybil Jordan (Hampton) was born on September 1, 1944 in Springfield, Missouri to Lorraine H. Jordan and Leslie W. Jordan. Hampton grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, where she was among the second group of African American students to attend Central High School in 1959, two years after the Little Roc...