Latitude and Longitude: 36º22'22"N 094º12'31"W Elevation: 1,280 feet Area: 33.84 square miles (2020 Census) Population: 54,164 (2020 Census) ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
The Back-to-Africa Movement mobilized thousands of African-American Arkansans who wished to leave the state for the Republic of Liberia in the late 1800s. ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Philander Smith University was the first historically Black, four-year college in Arkansas and the first historically Black college to be accredited by a ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
In its 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public education was a ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Latitude and Longitude: 34º44'43"N 092º16'31"W Elevation: 350 feet Area: 120.05 square miles (2020 Census) Population: 202,591 (2020 Census) Incorporation ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
African Americans constitute 15.1 percent of Arkansas’s population, according to the 2020 census, and they have been present in the state since the ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
The Elaine Massacre was by far the deadliest racial confrontation in Arkansas history and possibly the bloodiest racial conflict in the history of the ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas