The William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park is located on a thirty-acre city park in downtown Little Rock (Pulaski County). The center comprises ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
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
The muscadine is a kind of wild grape native to North America. It’s not the kind prized by connoisseurs, but here in the South it has become somewhat emblematic of regional foodways,| Roberts Library
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
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
Dale Leon Bumpers was one of the state’s most successful politicians in the last half of the twentieth century. As governor, Bumpers initiated the ...| 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
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 Arkansas Gazette, Arkansas’s first newspaper, was established in 1819, seventeen years before Arkansas became a state. Its editorial stance for law ...| Encyclopedia of Arkansas
The 112th United States Colored Infantry was a United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiment formed in Arkansas during the Civil War. Consisting of former ...| 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 Arkansas State Fair and Livestock Show (usually just called the Arkansas State Fair) is an annual event sponsored by the Arkansas Livestock Show ...| 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
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 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