Jefferson County

Boyce Alford (1923–2002)
Boyce Alford was a well-respected optometrist who also had a long career in public service. Active at both the...
Gerald Byron Alley (1952–)
Gerald Byron Alley is the founder of Con-Real, LP, which is the leading black-owned construction and real esta...
Altheimer (Jefferson County)
Altheimer is a second-class city in Jefferson County, located roughly halfway between Pine Bluff (Jefferson Co...
Benjamin Joseph Altheimer Sr. (1878–1946)
Benjamin Joseph Altheimer Sr. was a lawyer and philanthropist who was known as a “real trailblazer” in pro...
Joshua Altheimer (1911–1940)
Joshua Altheimer was one of the Delta’s most prolific blues pianists. Altheimer mastered the emerging boogi...
Frederick Tanqueray Anderson (1846–1926)
Frederick Tanqueray Anderson was an early twentieth-century Arkansas watercolorist. Categorized as a romantic ...
James Anderson (Lynching of)
On December 5, 1880 (one source gives the date as December 4), an African American man named James Anderson wa...
Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame
The Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) was created to honor Arkansans who hav...
Arkansas Railroad Museum
The Arkansas Railroad Museum in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) grew out of an effort by the Cotton Belt Histori...
Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas
The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County), accredited by the Ameri...
Band Museum
The Band Museum in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) housed an extensive collection of wind instruments and offere...
Antoine Barraque (1773–1858)
Antoine Barraque established the settlement called New Gascony, one of the earliest settlements in what is now...
Bayou Bartholomew
Located in southeast Arkansas, Bayou Bartholomew was, until the construction of railroad lines in the area in ...
Skirmish at Bayou Meto (February 24, 1865)
By 1863, guerrilla activity had become so prevalent in the territory surrounding Pine Bluff (Jefferson County)...
Skirmish near Bayou Meto (February 17, 1865)
  On February 16, 1865, a seventy-five-man scout detachment of the Thirteenth Illinois Cavalry (US) was s...
Bellingrath House
The Bellingrath House, located in White Hall (Jefferson County), was listed on the National Register of Histor...
Belmont Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery
The Belmont Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery are located in a rural area in the southeastern corner of J...
William Black (Execution of)
aka: Henry Black (Execution of)
William (or Henry) Black was executed at Pine Bluff (Jefferson Coun...
Joseph William Bocage (1819–1898)
Judge Joseph William Bocage was a prominent pioneer settler of Pine Bluff (Jefferson County). He served as att...
Boone-Murphy-Moore House
The Boone-Murphy-Moore House, now located at 714 West 4th Avenue in downtown Pine Bluff (Jefferson County), wa...
William Harvey Bowen (1923–2014)
William Harvey Bowen was a senior partner in Arkansas’s largest law firm, president of the state’s largest...
Malcolm Cleaburne Bowman (1926–1993)
Malcolm Cleaburne Bowman was respected worldwide as an analytical chemist, researcher, and author. He and his ...
Jesse Oliver Branch (1941–)
Jesse Branch served as a college and professional football player, football coach, and college athletics admin...
Branton v. State
When the U.S. Supreme Court declared in 1944 that Southern states could no longer bar African Americans from v...
Wiley Austin Branton Sr. (1923–1988)
Wiley Austin Branton was a civil rights leader in Arkansas who helped desegregate the University of Arkansas S...
Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (1846–1932)
Clifton Rodes Breckinridge was a late-nineteenth-century Arkansas politician who attained national prominence....
"Big Bill" Broonzy (1893?–1958)
aka: William Conley Lee Broonzy
Although William Lee Conley “Big Bill” Broonzy achieved fame an...
Fountain Brown (1806?–1865?)
Fountain Brown was a Methodist preacher who was the first person to be charged and found guilty of violating t...
Maxine Brown (1931–2019)
Maxine Brown was a musician known for her work with the country group the Browns in the 1950s and early 1960s....
Whit Brown (Execution of)
Whit Brown was an African American man hanged in Jefferson County on February 24, 1882, for a murder that he d...
The Browns
A vocal trio from southern Arkansas, the Browns had several country hits. They were also instrumental in the d...
Bobby “El Charro Negro” Butler (1937–2016)
Bobby “El Charro Negro” Butler broke down barriers as the first African American to become an award-winnin...