Prohibition, the effort to limit or ban the sale and consumption of alcohol, has been prevalent since Arkansas’s territorial period. The state has ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Cotton is a shrub known technically as gossypium. Although modest looking and usually no higher than a medium-sized man’s shoulders, its fruit helped to ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
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
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
David Hampton Pryor, arguably the most popular Arkansas politician of the modern era, held four different political offices during his career: state House ...| 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
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
The Little Rock Nine were the nine African American students involved in the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School. Their entrance into the ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
The weekly Arkansas State Press newspaper was founded in Little Rock (Pulaski County) in 1941 by civil rights pioneers Lucious Christopher Bates and Daisy ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Aaron v. Cooper, reversed by the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court as Cooper v. Aaron, was the “other shoe ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates was a mentor to the Little Rock Nine, the African American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock in 1957. She ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
The area in Little Rock historically called “the south end” is framed by Interstate 30 on the east side, Roosevelt Road on the north side, the Arkansas State Fairgrounds on the west side,| Roberts Library
May 17, 2024, marked the seventieth anniversary of the milestone decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas by the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned Plessy v.| Roberts Library
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