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
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
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
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