Blues guitarist and singer Luther Allison was born in Arkansas, but like many of his contemporaries in the rur...

Educator, author, and lecturer Daisy Graham Anderson is best known for being one of the last surviving widows ...

The Blackfish Lake Ferry Site marks the location where a ferry was established in 1826 to allow travelers on t...

Josiah Homer Blount was a successful African American businessman who, in 1920, became the first Black per...

Scott Winfield Bond was a successful landowner, farmer, and businessman at a time when the total number of Afr...

Prominent businessman and entrepreneur Ulysses Simpson (U. S.) Bond, like his father and brothers, was a membe...

In some cases, conflicting newspaper accounts make it difficult to identify the actual victim of a lynching, a...

Caldwell is a city on Crowley’s Ridge, a few miles north of Forrest City (St. Francis County). Located on th...

William Wilson Campbell of Forrest City (St. Francis County) was a banker known nationally for his expertise i...

Larry Chism is an Arkansas criminal, convicted felon, and longtime fugitive. In 1978, he escaped from a Lonoke...

Christ Church Parochial and Industrial School was a private school for African-American children operated in F...

Colt (St. Francis County), located at the intersection of Arkansas Highway 1 and Highway 306 between the L’A...

The Crowley’s Ridge Technical Institute (CRTI) was a technical college in Forrest City (St. Francis County) ...

Poindexter Dunn was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He represented the First Distric...

Lewis Porter (L. P.) Featherstone was an Agricultural Wheel leader and a politician who served in the state le...

An Irish American born into abject poverty in western Tennessee, Charlie Fleming came to the Arkansas Delta in...

Forrest City, located on the western slope of Crowley’s Ridge near the center of St. Francis County, has bee...

In the 1888 election, the Union Labor Party, which included farmers of the Agricultural Wheel, allied with the...

Among the early businesses in Forrest City (St. Francis County) was the Forrest City Times (1871–1919), esta...

Robert Foreman (Bobby) Fussell had a long career as a lawyer championing the legal rights of disabled veterans...

Al Green is one of Arkansas’s best-known singers, with a career that has ranged from rhythm and blues (R&...

A five-day scouting foray by Union soldiers of the Fifteenth Illinois Cavalry Regiment from Helena (Phillips C...

On the afternoon of February 13, 1864, Captain Charles O’Connell of the Fifteenth Illinois Cavalry boarded t...

Hughes is the second-largest town in St. Francis County. Located halfway between Mud Lake (St. Francis County)...

The Hughes Water Tower is located on Church Street in Hughes (St. Francis County). The metal water tower was b...

Donald Eulon Kessinger played major league baseball for sixteen years in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly for the C...

On August 3, 1862, a skirmish took place at L’Anguille Ferry, just north of Marianna (Lee County). The skirm...

On October 16, 1911, an African American man named Nathan Lacey was lynched in Forrest City (St. Francis Count...

Madison, named for President James Madison, is located on the western bank of the St. Francis River at the foo...