Black Power- James Cone
The black power movement, a new burst of African American activism that emerged in the late 1960s, has some intriguing links to Arkansas. James Cone, a pioneer of black liberation theology, was born in...
View ArticleArkansas Race Statistics
Although Arkansas is often portrayed as a moderate, even progressive state in terms of its race relations, indicative statistics can sometimes tell a different story. For example, in Alabama’s Tuskegee...
View ArticleArkansas Race Statistics
Although Arkansas is often portrayed as a moderate, even progressive state in terms of its race relations, indicative statistics can sometimes tell a different story. For example, between 1940 and...
View ArticleArkansas Race Statistics
Although Arkansas is often portrayed as a moderate, even progressive state in terms of its race relations, indicative statistics can sometimes tell a different story. For example, Arkansas is the only...
View ArticleAfrican American Businessmen- Nathan Warren
Nathan Warren was born in 1812 in the District of Columbia. He was brought to Arkansas as the slave of Robert Crittenden, the first secretary of Arkansas Territory. After Crittenden’s death, Warren...
View ArticleAfrican American Businessmen- John C. Claybrook
John C. Claybrook was born in Florence, Alabama, in 1872. After running away from home at thirteen to find work in Memphis, he worked on riverboats and then a Mississippi plantation before moving to...
View ArticleAfrican American Businessmen- Ulysses Scott Bond
Ulysses Scott (U.S.) Bond was born in Madison, Arkansas, in 1897, the tenth of eleven sons of Scott Winfield Bond and Magnolia Bond. U.S. Bond worked with his father, who was a landowner and...
View ArticleAfrican American Women Activists
This month at its commencement ceremony UALR will award an honorary doctorate to Marvell civil rights activist Gertrude Jackson. Black women like Jackson were often crucial in mobilizing local...
View ArticleAfrican American Women Activists
This month at its commencement ceremony UALR will award an honorary doctorate to Marvell civil rights activist Gertrude Jackson. Black women like Jackson were often crucial in mobilizing local...
View ArticleAfrican American Women Activists
This month at its commencement ceremony UALR will award an honorary doctorate to Marvell civil rights activist Gertrude Jackson. Black women like Jackson were often crucial in mobilizing local...
View ArticleLittle Rock Desegregation- Baseball
Fifty years ago, Dick Allen became the first African American player for the Arkansas Travelers baseball team. Allen came from the Philadelphia Phillies, where in 1960 he received the highest ever...
View ArticleLittle Rock Desegregation- Just About the Most Integrated... in the South
In April 1963, Jet magazine reported on the progress of Little Rock’s downtown desegregation. James Forman, executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, hailed the city as...
View ArticleJohn Carter Lynching Projects
Last fall I was contacted by two people working on the lynching of John Carter, the 38 year-old African American who was killed in west Little Rock in 1927. Stephanie Harp, who lives in Bangor, Maine,...
View ArticleJohn Carter Lynching Panel
A remarkable panel discussion took place at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in February. The topic was the lynching of John Carter in Little Rock in 1927. The panel was remarkable because it...
View ArticleJohn Carter's Descendants
At a panel discussion on the 1927 lynching of John Carter held at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in February, a number of fascinating insights came to light. Most intriguing of all were those...
View ArticleVoter Suppression- The Election Law of 1891
The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to vote regardless of “race, color or previous condition of servitude.” In attempts to suppress the black vote, states have...
View ArticleVoter Suppression- Poll Tax
The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to vote regardless of “race, color or previous condition of servitude.” In attempts to suppress the black vote, states have...
View ArticleVoter Suppression- All White Democratic Primaries
The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to vote regardless of “race, color or previous condition of servitude.” In attempts to suppress the black vote, states have...
View ArticleThe Abolitionists
As a slave-owning state, abolitionism was not a strong movement in Arkansas. As William Woodruff, editor of the Arkansas Gazette, put it, “an individual suspected of the taint of abolitionism [should]...
View Article"Clybourne Park"
In terms of geographical separation, Little Rock’s neighborhoods are more segregated today than they were seventy years ago. In the 1950s and 1960s, through slum clearance and urban renewal projects,...
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