On July 17, 1963, an African American teenager named Andrew Lee Anderson was killed while fleeing from a posse...

Anthonyville is a town located on State Highway 147 in southern Crittenden County. The town has never had a po...

Isadore Banks, a fifty-nine-year-old prominent African-American landowner, disappeared on June 4, 1954. Banks�...

Bauxippi was a short-lived shipping point on the Mississippi River in Crittenden County established by the Ame...

Thomas H. Bradley was a planter, state legislator, and brigadier general of the Arkansas State Militia. Given ...

The Brandywine was a steamboat that caught fire in early April 1832, resulting in a significant loss of life a...

Christine Brownlee was mayor of Gilmore (Crittenden County) in 1987–1990 and again in 1997–2002, as...

Lewis Glen (Lew) Carpenter had a long career in football, playing in high school, college, and in the National...

Preston Carpenter played football in high school, in college, and in the National Football League (NFL). He pl...

Although it remained unincorporated until the twenty-first century, Clarkedale is one of the oldest settlement...

An African American semi-professional baseball team located in eastern Arkansas during the 1930s, the Claybroo...

John C. Claybrook was a lumberman, farmer, baseball team owner, and one of the most successful African America...

Carroll James Cloar was a painter who earned national acclaim as a realist and surrealist. The majority of his...

John Cooper Jr. led Cooper Communities, the real estate development company founded by his father, John A. Coo...

John A. Cooper Sr. was the founder, chief executive officer, and board chair of Cooper Communities, Inc. He an...

A white laborer named George Corvett was lynched on February 12, 1890, two miles west of Crawfordsville (Critt...

Crawfordsville is a second-class city located on U.S. Highway 64 in central Crittenden County, about halfway b...

  Crittenden County is located in east-central Arkansas. Its eastern and southern boundaries are the Miss...

The Crittenden County Courthouse is a two-story brick building erected on the courthouse square in Marion (Cri...

John Roseborough and Henry Harris, both African American men convicted of murder, were hanged at Marion (Critt...

In July 1888, a group of influential white citizens in Crittenden County expelled a number of prominent Africa...

In early December of 1840, two unidentified escaped slaves were hanged in Crittenden County for allegedly murd...

Mara Leveritt’s 2002 book Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three focuses on the facts of t...

Earle is an incorporated city in western Crittenden County located on U.S. Highway 64 near the border with nei...

The Earle Race Riot of 1970 broke out in the late evening of September 10 and continued into the early hours o...

Josiah Francis Earle was a landowner in eastern Arkansas who served in the Civil War as a Confederate officer....

Edmondson is a town on State Highway 131 about three miles south of Interstate 40. As of the 2010 census, two-...

Edmondson Home and Improvement Company v. Harold E. Weaver was a civil suit in the Crittenden County Chancery ...

Thomas P. Eskridge was a judge on the Superior Court of Arkansas Territory, which eventually became the Arkans...

John Albert Fogleman was a lawyer who spent seventy years in the profession, including fourteen years as a jus...