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112th United States Colored Infantry (US)
aka: Fifth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
The 112th United States Colored Infantry was a United States Colore...
113th United States Colored Infantry (US)
aka: Sixth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
The 113th United States Colored Infantry, part of the United States...
312th Field Signal Battalion’s Pigeon Department
During World War I (1914–1918), homing pigeons emerged as a viable way for militaries to maintain contact wh...
A. M. Bohnert Rice Plantation Pump No. 2 Engine
Located on the southeast corner of the junction of U.S. Highway 165 and Post Bayou Lane near Gillett (Arkansas...
Aaron v. Cooper
aka: Cooper v. Aaron
Aaron v. Cooper, reversed by the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Ci...
AARP Arkansas
With its state headquarters in Little Rock (Pulaski County), AARP Arkansas is affiliated with the national org...
Abba House
Abba House was established by the Catholic Diocese of Little Rock in 1981 to offer a home to pregnant women an...
Abbott (Scott County)
Abbott is an unincorporated community located in northern Scott County along Highway 71. Established in 1899 n...
Abernathy Spring
Abernathy Spring is a mineral spring located in Polk County, 2.8 km (1.75 mi.) east of the unincorporated comm...
Eugene Hardeman Abington (1873–1965)
Eugene Hardeman (E. H.) Abington, a physician, practiced medicine and pharmacy in Arkansas and Oklahoma for mo...
William Henry Abington (1870–1951)
William Henry (W. H.) Abington, a physician and a Democratic politician, served as a state senator and a state...
Abortion
Abortion is defined as either a spontaneous early ending of a pregnancy (a.k.a. miscarriage) or an induced ear...
Lucien Abraham (1902–1960)
Lucien Abraham was an Arkansas educator and military officer who rose to the rank of adjutant general of the A...
Annie Mable McDaniel Abrams (1931–)
Annie Mable McDaniel Abrams is a retired educator and a political, social, civic, and community activist in Li...
Acanthocephalans
aka: Spiny-Headed Worms
aka: Thorny-Headed Worms
These cylindrical metazoan worms, superficially similar to nematode...
Accomplices to the Crime
Accomplices to the Crime is penologist Thomas O. Murton’s 1969 nonfiction account of his efforts to reform t...
Acme Brick Company
Acme Brick Company began operation in 1891 and is now the largest American-owned brick and masonry manufacture...
Acorn (Polk County)
Originally known as Gourdneck (sometimes written as Gourd Neck, Goardneck, or Gourd Nick), the Acorn community...
Act 10 of 1958 [Affidavit Law]
A special session of the Arkansas General Assembly passed Act 10 in 1958 as one of sixteen bills designed to b...
Act 112 of 1909
aka: Anti-Nightriding Law
aka: Anti-Whitecapping Law
Act 112 of 1909 was a law designed to curb the practice of nightrid...
Act 115 of 1959 [Anti-NAACP Law]
In 1959, the Arkansas General Assembly passed Act 115 as one of sixteen bills designed to bypass federal deseg...
Act 1220 of 2003
aka: Childhood Obesity Act
Act 1220 of 2003, which launched comprehensive efforts to curb chil...
Act 151 of 1859
aka: Act to Remove the Free Negroes and Mulattos from the State
aka: Arkansas's Free Negro Expulsion Act of 1859
The Arkansas General Assembly passed a bill in February 1859 that b...
Act 250 of 2021
aka: Stand-Your-Ground Law
On March 3, 2021, Governor Asa Hutchinson signed into law Act ...
Act 258 of 1909
aka: Toney Bill to Prevent Lynching
Act 258 of 1909 was a law intended to prevent citizens from engagin...
Act 343 of 1983 (April Fools' Day Act)
Act 343 of 1983, also known as the April Fools’ Day Act, made Arkansas the only state in the Union to recogn...
Act 346 of 2021
Act 346 of 2021, titled “An Act to Prohibit the Performance of a Pelvic Examination on an Unconscious or Ane...
Act 38 of 1971
Act 38 of 1971, which reorganized sixty state government agencies into thirteen cabinet-level departments, was...
Act 401 of 1951
aka: Communist Registration Act
Also called the Communist Registration Act, Act 401 was approved in...
Act 626 of 2021
aka: Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act
aka: HB 1570
Act 626 of 2021 was the first ever bill passed in the United State...
Act 710 of 2017
aka: Anti-BDS Law
Act 710 of 2017 is a law intended “to prohibit public entitie...
Act 76 of 1983
aka: Teacher Testing Law
Act 76 of 1983 was a law passed by the Arkansas General Assembly ma...