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Boyce Alford (1923–2002)
Boyce Alford was a well-respected optometrist who also had a long career in public service. Active at both the...
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Gerald Byron Alley (1952–)
Gerald Byron Alley is the founder of Con-Real, LP, which is the leading black-owned construction and real esta...
Side view of single-story brick church building with covered porch and steeple with tall tree next to it
Altheimer (Jefferson County)
Altheimer is a second-class city in Jefferson County, located roughly halfway between Pine Bluff (Jefferson Co...
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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...
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Frederick Tanqueray Anderson (1846–1926)
Frederick Tanqueray Anderson was an early twentieth-century Arkansas watercolorist. Categorized as a romantic ...
"Short Shrift. A Negro outrages a white lady in Pine Bluff" newspaper clipping
James Anderson (Lynching of)
On December 5, 1880 (one source gives the date as December 4), an African American man named James Anderson wa...
Music memorabilia with guitar stage clothes and photographs in display case
Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame
The Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) was created to honor Arkansans who hav...
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Arkansas Railroad Museum
The Arkansas Railroad Museum in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) grew out of an effort by the Cotton Belt Histori...
Multistory building with covered porch on roundabout with flower bed in its center
Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas
The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County), accredited by the Ameri...
UPS truck tree and car on street in front of storefront building that says "the band museum" on the front
Band Museum
The Band Museum in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) housed an extensive collection of wind instruments and offere...
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Antoine Barraque (1773–1858)
Antoine Barraque established the settlement called New Gascony, one of the earliest settlements in what is now...
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Bayou Bartholomew
Located in southeast Arkansas, Bayou Bartholomew was, until the construction of railroad lines in the area in ...
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Skirmish at Bayou Meto (February 24, 1865)
By 1863, guerrilla activity had become so prevalent in the territory surrounding Pine Bluff (Jefferson County)...
Blue diamond with stars and crossed swords above blue and red text
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...
Multistory brick and stone house with stone chimney large windows and a green lawn
Bellingrath House
The Bellingrath House, located in White Hall (Jefferson County), was listed on the National Register of Histor...
Front view of weathered cinderblock church building with double doors and cross on small steeple
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...
"For Killing His Stepdaughter" newspaper clipping
William Black (Execution of)
aka: Henry Black (Execution of)
William (or Henry) Black was executed at Pine Bluff (Jefferson Coun...
Two story wood frame home with two story porch balcony two chimneys yard and trees
Joseph William Bocage (1819–1898)
Judge Joseph William Bocage was a prominent pioneer settler of Pine Bluff (Jefferson County). He served as att...
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Boone-Murphy-Moore House
The Boone-Murphy-Moore House, now located at 714 West 4th Avenue in downtown Pine Bluff (Jefferson County), wa...
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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...
African American man with glasses in suit and tie
Branton v. State
When the U.S. Supreme Court declared in 1944 that Southern states could no longer bar African Americans from v...
African American man with glasses in suit and tie
Wiley Austin Branton Sr. (1923–1988)
Wiley Austin Branton was a civil rights leader in Arkansas who helped desegregate the University of Arkansas S...
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Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (1846–1932)
Clifton Rodes Breckinridge was a late-nineteenth-century Arkansas politician who attained national prominence....
African-American man in suit sitting on a bench playing guitar
"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...
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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....
"vindicated by the execution" newspaper clipping
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...
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The Browns
A vocal trio from southern Arkansas, the Browns had several country hits. They were also instrumental in the d...
One-armed Black man short hair and thin mustache wearing basketball uniform tube socks kneepads and sneakers leaned over holding basketball with right hand
Boid Buie (1922–1996)
Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) native Boid Buie achieved renown as the only one-armed athlete to compete in pro...