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
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
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