The Arkansas prison blood scandal resulted from the state’s selling plasma extracted from prisoners at the C...

On December 26, 1882, Charley Branch (sometimes referred to as Charles, Charlie, or Charles B. Branch) was lyn...

By late 1863, the area surrounding Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) was routinely occupied by violent guerrilla b...

Clinton Briggs, a twenty-six-year-old soldier who had just returned to Star City (Lincoln County) after servin...

Cane Creek State Park in southeast Arkansas occupies an environmentally significant setting on the border of t...

Carpenter’s Produce is an agricultural enterprise based in Grady (Lincoln County) that supplies produce for ...

On July 15, 1893, a seventeen-year-old African American named John Cotton was hanged near Cornerville (Lincoln...

The Cummins prison break on the morning of September 2, 1940, which was Labor Day, involved the escape of thir...

Ten inmates escaped from Cummins Prison on the freezing cold night of January 1, 1979, after convicts seized c...

The Cummins prison strike of 1974 was a non-violent incident involving 200 inmates who stopped work for twenty...

On June 13, 1919, Clyde Ellison was lynched at Star City (Lincoln County) for allegedly assaulting the daughte...

Mark Gardner was executed by lethal injection on September 8, 1999, for the strangulation murder of a Fort Smi...

Gould is a city in eastern Lincoln County, situated on U.S. Highway 65 and on the Union Pacific Railroad. Form...

Grady is a second-class city in northern Lincoln County. Located near the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Departm...

Joseph Carrol Hardin was a civic leader and politician throughout most of the twentieth century. He is best kn...

On February 23, 1892, an African-American man named George Harris was lynched by a mob near Varner (Lincoln Co...

On July 11, 1910, an African-American man named William Hunter (often referred to as Will) was lynched near St...

Jerry Louis Jones was an actor, screenwriter, and playwright best known for his collaboration with fellow Arka...

Rolf Kaestel was a penitentiary inmate and advocate for prison reform. A petty criminal before landing in Arka...

Thomas James (T. J.) Kearney (1906–2013), and his wife, Ethel Virginia Curry Kearney (1917–1982), were cot...

K. Wymand Keith was the nom de plume of Leonard Claude Bowen, the author of Long Line Rider: The Story of Cumm...

Lincoln County lies in southeastern Arkansas, bordered on the northeast by the Arkansas River. Bayou Bartholom...

The Lincoln County Courthouse is located on 300 Drew Street, south of downtown Star City (Lincoln County). The...

Lincoln High School was a school for African Americans located on the northwestern side of Star City (Lincoln ...

Long Line Rider: The Story of Cummins Prison Farm is a 1971 novel by former prison inmate K. Wymand Keith, the...

According to the Arkansas Gazette’s coverage of the affair, on the night of January 18, 1881, a mob of about...

Tom Murton is best known for his attempts to reform the Arkansas prison system during the governorship of Wi...

Sometime between October 27 and November 1, 1926, Bud Nelson was shot near Tarry (Lincoln County) for the alle...

Dan T. Nelson was lynched by a mob of African Americans in Lincoln County on November 13, 1893, for allegedly ...

William Owens was an African American man executed at Varner (Lincoln County) on May 30, 1895, after being con...

Palmyra is an unincorporated community in southwestern Lincoln County, about five miles west of Star City (Lin...