The town of Aubrey stretches along State Highway 121 in western Lee County. Formed early in the twentieth cent...

James Albert Banks is an educator who has been called the “father of multicultural education,” a disciplin...

On April 17, 1905, an African-American levee worker named John Barnett was hanged by a black mob near Askew (L...

The town of Brickeys existed in Lee County for about forty years before its incorporation was allowed to lapse...

On May 16, 1900, an African American named James (Jim) or John Brodie—accounts differ—was killed near Ragg...

Everett Richard Cook was a Marianna (Lee County) cotton broker who became a World War I flying ace, a successf...

The Cotton Pickers Strike of 1891 was an ill-conceived attempt by a group of African-American sharecroppers in...

The Courier-Index, a newspaper based in Marianna (Lee County), is the oldest continuous business operation in ...

Robert Donnelly, an African-American man, was lynched in Lee County on June 29, 1892, by a mob of more than 20...

William Hines Furbush was an African American member of the Arkansas General Assembly and the first sheriff of...

The General Robert E. Lee Monument in Marianna (Lee County) is a commemorative sculpture erected in 1910 by th...

Mildred Barnes Griggs served as professor and dean of the College of Education at the University of Illinois a...

Haynes is a town in north-central Lee County, about one mile from the St. Francis County line and two miles f...

A two-day scouting foray from the Union base at Helena (Phillips County) that reached as far as Council Bend (...

A two-day scouting foray from Helena (Phillips County) into what is now Lee County netted a pair of Confederat...

On May 26, 1883, an African-American man named Jesse Howard was fatally shot in Marianna (Lee County) for alle...

Jones Bar-B-Q Diner, a nationally known eatery in Marianna (Lee County), is perhaps the oldest continuously op...

LaGrange is a town in southern Lee County, between Marianna (Lee County) and Helena-West Helena (Phillips Coun...

Located in the Delta, Lee County is bounded on its east by the Mississippi River. Two navigable rivers, the St...

The Lee County Courthouse is located on 15 East Chestnut Street, overlooking downtown Marianna (Lee County). T...

Two African American men convicted of murder, Isaac Green and John Harden, were hanged in Marianna (Lee County...

Henry LeSane was an African American sharecropper hanged at Marianna (Lee County) on May 16, 1902, for the amb...

Marianna, the county seat of Lee County, is situated along the L’Anguille River in eastern Arkansas. It has ...

  Part of a three-day expedition from Helena (Phillips County) to Moro (Lee County), the skirmishes at M...

In the early 1970s, African Americans in the rural Delta community of Marianna (Lee County), lacking represent...

The Marianna National Guard Armory, built in 1929, is an Art Deco–style building constructed as part of a st...

The Marianna Waterworks, located at 252 U.S. Highway 79 in Marianna (Lee County), is a water distribution comp...

Edgar Allen McCulloch was a lawyer in eastern Arkansas who achieved renown in a long career that included twen...

Philip Doddridge McCulloch Jr. was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He represented th...

Robert McFerrin Sr. was an African American baritone opera and concert singer who became the first Black male...

Cotton breeder Carl Avriette Moosberg demonstrated that advances in the early maturing of cotton were possible...

Located at the intersection of State Highways 238 and 78, Moro is the second-largest incorporated community in...