Civil War to Gilded Age

American Missionary Association
The American Missionary Association (AMA) was a nondenominational abolitionist society dedicated to providing ...
Wyatt Ames (Lynching of)
On October 15 or 16, 1883, an African-American man named Wyatt Ames was shot to death near Lexington (some rep...
James Anderson (Lynching of)
On December 5, 1880 (one source gives the date as December 4), an African American man named James Anderson wa...
Anti-miscegenation Laws
Anti-miscegenation laws were edicts that made it unlawful for African Americans and white people to marry or e...
Arkadelphia Lynching of 1879
aka: Lynching of Daniels Family
In late January 1879, Ben Daniels and two of his sons—who were ac...
Atkins Race War of 1897
What most newspapers described as the “Atkins Race War” occurred in Lee Township of Pope County in late Ma...
Jerry Atkins (Lynching of)
Jerry Atkins, a black man, was murdered in Union County on November 21, 1865, for having allegedly murdered tw...
Wash Atkinson (Lynching of)
On December 6, 1877, an African-American man named Wash Atkinson was hanged by a mob in Arkadelphia (Clark Cou...
Back-to-Africa Movement
The Back-to-Africa Movement mobilized thousands of African-American Arkansans who wished to leave the state fo...
James Bailey (Lynching of)
On July 9, 1891, James Bailey was hanged from a railroad crossing sign in Beebe (White County) for allegedly a...
Eugene Baker (Lynching of)
On July 30, 1892, Eugene Baker (sometimes referred to as Dan Baker), who allegedly murdered a white man in Ash...
Glenco Bays (Lynching of)
On February 18, 1904, Glenco Bays was burned at the stake near Crossett (Ashley County) for the murder of J. D...
Bearden Lynching of 1893
On May 9, 1893, three African Americans were lynched in Bearden (Ouachita County) for what was called a “mur...
William and Henry Beavers (Lynchings of)
In 1890 and 1892, brothers William and Henry Beavers—both African American—were lynched near Warren (Bradl...
Peter Berryman (Lynching of)
On February 20, 1901, Peter Berryman (regularly referred to as “Nigger Pete” in newspaper articles) was ly...
Lynching of the Biscoe Family
In early February 1892, Hamp Biscoe (or Bisco), his pregnant wife, and his thirteen-year-old son were killed i...
Black Hawk War of 1872
The Black Hawk War was a Reconstruction-era political and racial conflict in Mississippi County that occurred ...
Black Union Troops
aka: African American Union Troops
aka: United States Colored Troops
Many former African American slaves and freedmen from Arkansas ans...
Pickens W. Black Sr. (1861?–1955)
Pickens W. Black Sr. was one of the most remarkable African-American agriculturalists in northeast Arkansas in...
West Bogan (Trial of)
Bound in slavery on a cotton farm near Helena (Phillips County), West Bogan fought and killed his subjugator...
Bowles (Lynching of)
Sometime around August 22, 1892, an African-American man identified only by his surname, which was Bowles, was...
Charley Branch (Lynching of)
On December 26, 1882, Charley Branch (sometimes referred to as Charles, Charlie, or Charles B. Branch) was lyn...
Brodie (Lynching of)
On May 16, 1900, an African American named James (Jim) or John Brodie—accounts differ—was killed near Ragg...
Brooks (Lynching of)
In some cases, conflicting newspaper accounts make it difficult to identify the actual victim of a lynching, a...
Fountain Brown (1806?–1865?)
Fountain Brown was a Methodist preacher who was the first person to be charged and found guilty of violating t...
Butlerville Lynching of 1882
On June 1, 1882, three African Americans named Joseph Earl, Taylor Washington, and Thomas Humphreys were hange...
Will Caldwell and John Thomas (Lynching of)
aka: John Thomas and Will Caldwell (Lynching of)
On September 10, 1895, an African-American man named Will Caldwell ...
Canfield Race War of 1896
On Saturday, December 12, 1896, African American workers at the Canfield Lumber Company in the small lumber to...
Henry Capus (Lynching of)
Henry Capus, an African-American man, was lynched in late June 1894 in Columbia County. The reports regarding ...
Allen Carter (Lynching of)
Sometime during the first week of August 1892, an African-American man named Allen Carter was lynched at Wynne...
Chicot County Race War of 1871
aka: Chicot County Massacre
In late 1871, Chicot County was taken over by several hundred Afric...
Clarendon Lynching of 1898
On August 9, 1898, Manse (or Manze) Castle, Will Sanders (Saunders), Sanders’s mother Lorilla (Rilla) Weaver...