Latitude and Longitude: 36º19'55"N 094º07'06"W Elevation: 1371 feet Area: 38.89 square miles (2020 Census) Population: 69,908 (2020 Census) Incorporation ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
American chattel slavery was a unique institution that emerged in the English colonies in America in the seventeenth century. Enslaved peoples were held ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
In the last years of the 1850s, Arkansas enjoyed an economic boom that was unparalleled in its history. But in the years between 1861 and 1865, the bloody ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Founded in 1962 by Sam Walton, Walmart Inc., the world’s most profitable retail outlet for many years, also became the largest employer in the United ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Segregation and desegregation in Arkansas cannot be understood using the same model that has defined these matters in other Southern states. Throughout ...| 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