Take Down This Billboard

The Issue

Please ask Pro-Signs Inc to take down this sign that stands just outside Harrison Arkansas.

Fort Smith, Arkansas based company Pro-Signs, Inc. dba Harrison Sign Company has put up several billboards advertising racist organizations in the area over the past few years. The billboards have drawn a great deal of media and online attention and amplified a message of hate. The billboards have done tremendous damage to our community by giving the impression that our citizens support their messages and don’t object to their presence.

A billboard is erected through a business agreement between a client, a sign company and a landowner. Although there is no legal way to force the removal of the signs, the Harrison community worked together to remove all but one. This, the remaining sign, was erected by Harrison Sign Company and sits on land owned by the company president.

First impressions are powerful and this is the first impression to our visitors, often confirming their preconception of Harrison as a racist community.   We ask you to participate in promoting inclusion by signing your name. We again respectfully ask company owners Claude West and David Frye, neither of whom lives in Harrison, to bring down the last racist billboard and prevent others from being erected.

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Harrison Community Task Force on Race RelationsPetition StarterSecretary of a community organization determined to develop the perception and reality of our town as a warm and welcoming place

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The Issue

Please ask Pro-Signs Inc to take down this sign that stands just outside Harrison Arkansas.

Fort Smith, Arkansas based company Pro-Signs, Inc. dba Harrison Sign Company has put up several billboards advertising racist organizations in the area over the past few years. The billboards have drawn a great deal of media and online attention and amplified a message of hate. The billboards have done tremendous damage to our community by giving the impression that our citizens support their messages and don’t object to their presence.

A billboard is erected through a business agreement between a client, a sign company and a landowner. Although there is no legal way to force the removal of the signs, the Harrison community worked together to remove all but one. This, the remaining sign, was erected by Harrison Sign Company and sits on land owned by the company president.

First impressions are powerful and this is the first impression to our visitors, often confirming their preconception of Harrison as a racist community.   We ask you to participate in promoting inclusion by signing your name. We again respectfully ask company owners Claude West and David Frye, neither of whom lives in Harrison, to bring down the last racist billboard and prevent others from being erected.

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Harrison Community Task Force on Race RelationsPetition StarterSecretary of a community organization determined to develop the perception and reality of our town as a warm and welcoming place

The Decision Makers

Pro-Signs Inc. dba Harrison Sign Company
Pro-Signs Inc. dba Harrison Sign Company
David Frye and Claude West
David Frye and Claude West

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Petition created on August 5, 2020