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
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
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
