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Unity On Wheels: Wynne Sunset Skate, 325 Magnolia Street, Wynne, AR (2026)

09/05/2026

I had to move my skates to a new and improved location 🥹🤍🤟 34 pairs of skates.. 6 skateboards.. 3 helmets.. A few sets of pads... And even a few pairs not pictured here...
I collected ALL of this simply because people believed in something bigger than themselves.. That's really all I've ever asked of anybody.. Shoot for the stars! Do what's right, even when it isn't the easiest thing to do.. Kill em with kindness, and believe in yourself SO damn much that eventually, other people can't help but believe in you too 🤟
I started with one simple thought "I want to bring this energy to my town"
Now we've got 34 pairs of skates 🥹 That's 34 opportunities to put somebody on wheels who might've never gotten the chance otherwise!

ANDDDD I'm officially organizing this month's
🍂 FALL UNITY ON WHEELS EVENT 🍂
If you'd like to be a vendor, I would LOVE to have you. Bring your tent, set up, sell your stuff, promote your business, whatever you do...
My vendor fee? Have SOMETHING available for FREE. Thats it. 🤟
It doesn't have to be huge or expensive. I just want every person who walks through-regardless of what they have in their pocket-to be able to participate, get something, try something, or simply enjoy themselves too 🥹
ALL walks of life. ALL ages. ✨️ONE COMMUNITY✨️ That's the whole damn point! Create the access, the community will do the rest 🤌🙌
🤍🛹🛼UNITY ON WHEELS 🛼🛹🤍
🍂Fall edition loading... 🍂

09/05/2026

I have gotten so many leads over the last few days that it's honestly getting hard to keep up with all of them but I keep coming back to this woman.
✨️Rosa Lee Norsworthy✨️
In 1944, Rosa Lee was the entire graduating senior class of Cross County Training School.. ONE. Just her.. what that actually MEANS..
Rosa Lee was born around 1925, which would have made her about 19 years old standing in this picture.. A young black woman graduating high school in cross county, Arkansas in 1944.. Think about the world she was living in..
World War II was still happening. Arkansas schools were segregated. Brown vs Board wouldn't happen for another 10 years.. Integration of schools in this part of the country was still YEARS away.. Somehow, through all of that, Rosa Lee made it to graduation.. Alone!
I wonder how many kids started school with her. How many made it to graduate school? How many had to leave school to go to war? How many girls became mothers? How many families simply couldn't afford for their teenagers to stay in a classroom? How far did some of these children have to travel just to continue past the grades their little community schools offered?.. I don't know those answers yet.
That sentence under her picture tho.. "The 1944 graduating senior class was probably the smallest class on record- one", doesn't feel like a cute little piece of trivia to me.. It feels IMPORTANT.
Rosa Lee didn't disappear after this photograph.. She stayed here. She later became Rosa Lee Norsworthy Wimbush. Marrying Thomas C. Wimbush Sr in 1951 🥹🤍 One of the most interesting pieces I've found is what happened after that.
Thomas Sr had a young son, Thomas Curtis Wimbush Jr (pictured front row, third in) whose biological mother died when he was very young.. Rosa Lee raised that little boy 🥹🙌 That little boy grew up and graduated from Childress High School in 1968- as valedictorian and class president!!! 😭👏
Just sit with that for a second...
1944 Rosa Lee Norsworthy stands alone as the graduating class of Cross County Training School..
1968 the son she raised graduates from the black high school and left it as valedictorian and class president! 🤌✨️
That's only 24 years.. One family lived across that entire piece of history... 🥺 THIS is why I've gotten so wrapped up in finding the PEOPLE instead of just buildings.. Buildings don't tell you what it FELT like, but people do.
Between Rosa Lee standing alone in that cap and gown in 1944 and her son walking across a graduation stage in 1968 is an enormous piece of Cross County's educational history!!!!
While I've been researching her, another school has entered the picture, Northern Ohio School in Parkin. It was another segregated school for black children in Cross County. It only went through the 8th grade, meaning children who wanted more education had to continue somewhere else.. That's where these dates have my attention.
1910 is when Northern Ohio School is established.
1944 Rosa Lee is the lone graduate of Cross County Training School.
1947 Cross County Training School is officially renamed Childress Vocational High School.
1948 Northern Ohio School closes down.
1950 records begin talking about work/final touches on school facilities that I'm still sorting out.
Now I have a questions I REALLY want an answer to..
Where did the Northern Ohio kids go when they finished 8th grade? 👀👀 Did any of them come to Wynne? Did Rosa Lee know them? Were families from Parkin sending children to Cross County Training School to finish their education before it ever carried the Childress name? WHEN was the deshay building built? WHY doesnt the man have a damn sign up with his NAME on it.. and WHY ARE WE ALLOWING A HISTORICAL LANDMARK TO SIT AND ROT!?! I don't know yet.. I'm not going to turn a possibility into a fact just because the dates line up.. but, I sure know what I'm looking for now 👀
Tonight, though, I just want Rosa Lee's name out there..

✨️Rosa Lee Norsworthy Wimbush✨️
Cross County Training School Class of 1944.
The whole graduating class 🥹🤌🙌

If this is your grandmother, great grandmother, aunt, cousin, or Thomas Wimbush Jr himself PLEASE talk to me! 👏👏 I want to know who she was.. What she was like, what her parents did, where she lived, what she told her children about school, how she liked her tea.. because I don't want to find another name, write down two dates, and move along... I want these people to become PEOPLE IN HISTORY like they always deserved to be..

09/04/2026

I think somewhere along the way I kinda lost track of the "why am I here?" I have written down a million times..
The drive is still ✨️community✨️ It’s still bringing people together who may not look like you, think like you, live like you, or come from the same background as you.. It’s getting off our phones and actually TALKING to each other. Dancing, laughing, moving our bodies, sharing space.. It’s teaching kids what youve learned about life.
This is one of the girls I’ve been teaching to skate at the McCallum Center. I won’t share her name, but I love these kids DEARLY. Watching them learn has meant more to me than anybody realizes because i havent been able to post about it.. I guess my partnership with the McCallum Center is over. I guess this research I’ve been doing hit a little too close to home for Mr. Bailey, because I was removed without even enough respect for an explanation... Seems to be the thing to do around here when somebody starts asking uncomfortable questions.. But, I'm not going to let that distract me from WHY I started any of this..
If your kids attend the after school program at the center, please reach out to me!!! would still love to organize skate sessions with them somewhere else, and there are a few of my main little skaters that I want to personally give their skates to.. Those were meant for THEM!! 😭🛼

I’m sharing this picture because THIS is why I’m here.. Skating saved my life. It is one of the only places in this world where my brain gets quiet enough that I can focus solely on my body and get OUT OF MY HEAD. It’s my exercise. It’s my therapy. It’s my recovery. It’s falling down and learning that falling down doesn’t mean you’re done!!!! It’s watching that spark ignite in a child 🥹🤌
Watching a kid go from scared and wobbly, holding onto everything around them to realizing, "WAIT, I CAN DO THIS." That sort of confidence carries farther than a pair of skates 😭🫡 The location changes.. The partnerships change.. Doors close.. People decide they don’t want to walk beside you anymore.

The "why" didn’t change!!!! Community. Access. Kids. Movement. Healing. People who might never have crossed paths otherwise, laughing together on eight wheels! That’s WHY Unity on Wheels exists!

That’s why I’m here..

🤍🛼 SKATE IS FATE!! 🛼🤍

09/03/2026

Could you imagine getting an assignment in school to make a family tree and not knowing anything about your great grandparents? Think about watching the kid beside you trace their family back 8 generations.. To settlers arriving in America, to Salem, to names, dates, gravestone sites and newspaper articles.. Yet, you can't even find your grandma's kindergarten yearbook 😭

THIS IS why I am bothered.. This ISN'T about Mayor Jennifer Linam Hobbs . Sorry for the news, girlfriend.. 🙄 This shouldn't even be political.. If it were, hell, I could write you a dissertation about why I voted for Donald Trump 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ I vote Republican.. I support the Second Amendment.. I believe our borders should be secure and people should enter this country legally.. I read my Bible every day, and I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God ✝️ I am also an AVID lover of history, and PEOPLE. I mean, I have written whole paragraphs about a vintage roller skate bag, all the way down to what MATERIAL the damn thing was made out of 😅
So when I started digging into Wynne's history, I was FLOORED by how difficult it was to find the history of Wynne's black community.. This isn't nostalgia.. The Archives determine whose lives future generations are able to reconstruct... The deeper I look, the more important Childress becomes in ALL of this..
O'Dell McCallum was a 10th grade student while E.U. DeShay was principal at Childress. McCallum was DeShay's PROTEGE!!!! Think about that lineage for a second.. DeShay poured into a young McCallum.. McCallum went on to pour into generations after him.. These aren't random names on buildings.. THEY ARE PEOPLE!!!! They are a chain of black education, leadership, mentorship and community in Wynne that deserves to be preserved so the children growing up here NOW can know who came before them!!!!

◽️Childress School deserves to be restored and given the GLORY it deserves as the historic place that it is..

◽️E.U. DeShay deserves the building that carried his name.. At the absolute bare minimum, E.U. DESHAY PARK DESERVES A DAMN SIGN THAT SAYS E.U. DESHAY PARK!! 🙄🙄🙄 At least PRETEND you care about the history of the town you all seem to be such die hards for 😅🤷‍♀️ How are children supposed to ask, "Mom, who was E.U. DeShay?" if his NAME isn't even there?

THAT!!! THAT RIGHT THERE!!! That's history, man 😭 Not just presidents, wars, and politicians.. It's somebody's grandma. It's the woman whose BBQ somebody can still taste decades later. It's the teacher somebody remembers. The principal who believed in a 10th grade boy. The school where generations learned to read and write.. The neighborhood where people raised babies, built businesses, worshipped, cooked, played ball and took care of each other!!! These stories deserve somewhere to live... this is BIGGER than Wynne Ar and the misuse of funds during a tornado (even though we the people are ALL waiting on an official answer to that)
I've had A LOT of people during this journey who I genuinely believed were my friends and believed were standing beside me because we agreed on one very simple thing,
✨️DOING THE RIGHT THING✨️
I'm learning that not everybody who smiles, asks questions or acts interested necessarily has the same intentions I do.. I've been warned about that repeatedly. I didn't want to believe it.. I'm still not going to start throwing accusations around that I cannot prove.. But, I WILL document what happens to me, and I prefer having my receipts as you ALL know 😏
Yesterday, I was teaching children at the McCallum Center. Today, I was there making sure my girls had their inline skates...
Don't speculate about the 'why' until you've documented the hell out of the 'what'.
So, I'm documenting.. I'm researching.. I'm asking questions.. I'm following records..

Im not asking "Who is hiding Black history?".. Im more asking "Why is it so difficult for descendants of Wynne's black community to reconstruct their own history from the institutions responsible for preserving Wynne's history!?!?! In 2026?! WHY are we allowing a mans name that was CLEARLY important to this towns history to just disappear.. WITHOUT EVEN SO MUCH AS A PARK SIGN WITH HIS NAME ON IT.. If you don't stand for something, YOU STAND ON NOTHING 🤷‍♀️

Preserving the history of the people who built this community shouldn't require choosing a political side.. ✨️It just requires us to give a damn✨️
It's American history worth saving 😭 why am i even fighting this fight in 2026 😭😭

09/02/2026

I think I understand some of the CODE to finding this history 😭 Yesterday I spent hours in the library trying to dig into black history in Wynne, any information on the Childress School, E.U. DeShay and the people connected to all of it. There just wasn’t anything there.. I might not have known what I was looking for yet 🤔🤔
I didn’t know the 'Arkansas State Press' was a black owned newspaper!!! It was created by L.C. and Daisy Bates in 1941. Specifically to give black Arkansans a VOICE when so much of mainstream media either ignored them or told their stories through somebody else’s lens.. I didn’t know that if I was looking for Childress, I might also need to look under 'The Indians'.. I didn’t know that names, mascots, churches, teachers, coaches, social columns and black newspapers could basically be little keys unlocking the history.. So, I’m going to get very close with the local library, and museum 🤷‍♀️😆

This picture tho.. This is Daisy Bates and her husband, L.C. Bates, around 1957.. 🤯 The same year Arkansas was in the middle of the 'Little Rock Central High School crisis'.. L.C. and Daisy founded the 'Arkansas State Press' in 1941!!! It became one of the LOUDEST voices in Arkansas against segregation, police brutality, unequal treatment and political injustice! L.C. was the editor and fire behind much of the paper's day to day work 💪 While Daisy became increasingly involved and eventually emerged as one of the most important civil rights leaders in the state!! Daisy, whew, girl 🥵
✨️Daisy Bates✨️ became president of the Arkansas NAACP and was a mentor and organizer for the 'Little Rock Nine' as they integrated Central High School in 1957. Her home literally became a command post where those students gathered during one of the most dangerous school desegregation battles in American history.. 🥺🤌
Ya'll know I love all things VINTAGE 🤷‍♀️😭 The hair.. the hats.. the suits.. the cameras.. the whole LOOK of this photo is so beautiful to me 😍
But, once you know the history, you stop seeing the clothes.. I see pressure and exhaustion.. I can FEEL the determination.. L.C. standing there with a cigarette and a camera hanging from his neck 🎥 Daisy right there in the middle of the conversation.. Not behind him, not off to the side, but IN IT! THAT is what I admire so much about this picture! 🥹🤌🙌
Women had gained constitutional voting rights by this time. But black women in the South still faced discrimination and voting barriers, and women in general were nowhere near being treated as equal voices in leadership.. Daisy was fighting something deeper than just one battle.. She was fighting segregation as a black person in Arkansas AND demanding to be respected as a woman in a world where men overwhelmingly controlled politics, newspapers, government and public power.. I don’t want to rewrite her story and call her something she wasn’t. Her documented work was overwhelmingly about civil rights and racial equality.. But, I DO think there is something ✨️POWERFUL✨️ about a black woman standing at the center of one of the biggest civil rights battles in the country and refusing to be minimized!!!!
I also love the fact that the historical record shows L.C. did not treat Daisy like a decorative wife standing behind him.. She became city editor, copublisher, an NAACP leader and eventually a nationally recognized figure in her own doing 💪🙌 Their partnership wasn’t cute little vintage history either.. They PAID for this work! Their newspaper lost advertising because of their involvement in school integration.. They received threats.. Their home was targeted.. And the Arkansas State Press ultimately shut down in 1959 after advertisers abandoned it during the Central High crisis 😭
✨️But, they kept going!✨️
L.C. later became the Arkansas NAACP field director.. Daisy went on to work in anti poverty programs where she later moved into the predominantly black community of Mitchellville, Arkansas. There, she helped secure improvements including water, sewer, paved streets, a community center and other infrastructure! 🙌
Civil rights weren't JUST about who could sit beside who in a classroom.. It was about ✨️ACCESS✨️
Access to education, access to newspapers, access to political power, access to safe neighborhoods, access to public resources, access to being SEEN!!! Sound familiar? 👀😭👀

I have NOT yet found proof that L.C. Bates and E.U. DeShay personally worked together, and I’m not going to invent that connection just because it would make a good story.. although it WOULD 🤷‍♀️🙌 but the fact is, their worlds absolutely overlapped in the timeframe.. During the years the Bates were publishing a statewide black newspaper fighting segregated education, Childress WAS the segregated black school here in Wynne, Arkansas! The State Press reached communities including Forrest City and St. Francis County, right beside us..
So now I have a whole new list of words to search..
Childress
"Indians"
E.U. DeShay
Forrest City
Cross County
St. Francis County
Teachers
Coaches
Basketball
Churches
Community leaders
I genuinely think some of the history I thought was missing yesterday may have been sitting right in front of me.. I just didn’t know the 'code' yet.. that makes me want to go BACK 😂🤷‍♀️😭🙌

If Arkansas needed people like Daisy and L.C. Bates fighting this hard in the 1940s and 50s.. If Wynne still had people describing Klan activity decades later, and if we know this town once maintained an entirely separate school system for black children.. Then how much of Wynne’s civil rights story have we actually documented? How much happened right here that we just don’t talk about..? 👀 How many people like E.U. DeShay were doing the work locally while people like the Bates were fighting the same system statewide? That’s apart of the story I want to find.. Wynne's Black history IS Wynne history!
If we don’t know who these people were, how in the world are we supposed to understand what they built, what they fought for or what we’re allowing to disappear? TWO BUILDINGS of historical significance wiped out by a tornado only for funds to NOT go back into the black community..
This is one of MANY stories I’m hoping to tell about the people and history in my community 🥹🙌

09/01/2026

I spent HOURS digging through the archives at the library today.. annoying the VERY helpful librarians that work there 🤪🥹🙌📖 Ya'll know how I am at this point 😅🤷‍♀️ I start with one question, find something that doesn't make sense, and suddenly I'm 14 books deep trying to figure out WHY.. I went looking for information about E.U. DeShay park.. Instead, I started learning about E.U. DeShay the one and only, the MAN behind the name of the park i skate. I think its important that his story be shared 🤌
Before Wynne, Arkansas schools were integrated, black children in town attended the "Childress School." Childress was Wynne's black school during segregation. Federal desegregation records even specifically document Childress High School and say it later became Wynne Junior High.. (not to be confused with the building currently operating as the Junior high). I went through our local library looking for Childress. Nothing.. No Childress yearbooks.. No big section preserving the generations of Wynne children who went there.. Childress ABSOLUTELY existed, though. I can find graduates from 1958, 1965, 1968.. even people who attended Childress and then Wynne High during integration.. The Childress building itself? It's literally still standing in Wynne.. barely. An entire physical piece of Wynne's Black history is sitting here deteriorating while so much of its story is difficult to even FIND locally..

This is where E.U. DeShay comes in..
Mr. E.U. DeShay-Principal

DeShay was an educator at Childress during segregation times. The stories being passed down about this man aren't just about sitting behind a principal's desk.. They're about ✨️ACCESS✨️
Former student remembers DeShay introducing tennis to Wynne's Black community. They didn't even have a tennis court.. But, DeShay put a net in the grass and marked the court with white lime that created the lines on the ground.. He taught them anyway!! 🎾👟🤌

"He exposed me to things that I was not yet privy to." THAT hit me in my heart.. I swear everything I've been doing lately keeps circling back to that ONE word.. ✨️ACCESS✨️You cannot discover you're good at something you've never been given the OPPORTUNITY to try..

Eventually, Wynne put E.U. DeShay's name on that little concrete gym in Ward 4.. Generations of the black community used it afterwards. John G. Smith created "Boys 2 Men&Girls 2 Women" program operating out of that building. Working with Wynne's youth and the school system.. That part isn't just word of mouth.. It's documented..

Then March 31, 2023 happened and the tornado destroyed the E.U. DeShay building, along with half of our town. It was traumatizing for SO many of us.. I've been standing on these park grounds, looking at deteriorating courts, asking what happened to the building and asking where the money went.. My question always gets bigger somehow tho 😅😅

✨️Do we actually understand what we're allowing to disappear?✨️

E.U. DeShay isn't just the name written on a park sign.. He was a HUGE part of Wynne's Black educational history during segregation.. Childress isn't some school from another town.. IT IS HERE..
Children grew up here.. Teachers taught here.. Athletes played over here.. These families built lives here, and have family history just as well as the rest of us.

🇺🇲BLACK HISTORY IS AMERICAN HISTORY!!🇺🇲

I'm still researching.. I'm talking to people who actually lived this history.. I'm looking for records. I'm not going to turn assumptions into facts just because they fit a narrative to anyone 🤷‍♀️ I am going to keep digging tho.. I went to the library today looking for information about a park.. I came home with MORE questions about entire pieces of our own town's history that we barely talk about.. or even KNOW EXIST..

E.U. DeShay believed children deserved opportunities even when the world around them wasn't providing them!! No tennis court? Make one in the grass. No access? ✨️Create it✨️
Before we decide what is and isn't worth rebuilding, preserving or investing in, I think we should know whose legacy we're talking about first 🤷‍♀️🙌 If you knew this man, have any stories of him, PLEASE share! 👇👇

◽️"Mr. DeShay was a World War II veteran, and during a time of segregation in Wynne, Arkansas, he was respected by both Black and white people. He received awards from White establishments in Wynne, which really was kind of unheard of at the time, and he helped usher so many Black students through the Black schools. Many of them went on to college and had great careers. All of this during the time of segregation"

◽️"Mr. DeShay will be etched in my memory because of the many times my dad referred to him in a deeply respectful way, of what I heard about him while growing up in Wynne, and the influence I knew he had in the community for years.. Now, I am so pleased to read this report on him and remember him and others who helped make Wynne “The City with a Smile”.

This is E.U. DeShay's story..

Wynne should acknowledge it

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