Criminal Activities

Tony Alamo (1934–2017)
aka: Tony Alamo Christian Ministries
Tony Alamo was a well-known evangelist who, after a radical convers...
Henry Allen (Lynching of)
Henry Allen was lynched in Jacksonport (Jackson County) on September 10, 1881, three days after he stabbed a m...
Louis Allwhite (Lynching of)
Louis Allwhite, a white man, was lynched just outside of Newport (Jackson County) on December 31, 1904, for ha...
Alph (Lynching of)
A mob of white residents of Benton County lynched Alph, an enslaved African-American man, on August 20, 1849. ...
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...
William Anderson (Lynching of)
On July 8, 1906, an African American named William Anderson was hanged from a telephone pole just south of Til...
Joseph J. Anthony (Murder of)
The only recorded violent death on the floor of the Arkansas General Assembly occurred on December 4, 1837, in...
James Arcene (1862?–1885)
James Arcene, a Cherokee man, was sentenced to death for a crime he committed years before. While aspects of h...
Arkadelphia Lynching of 1879
aka: Lynching of Daniels Family
In late January 1879, Ben Daniels and two of his sons—who were ac...
Arkansas "Scottsboro" Case
aka: Bubbles Clayton and James X. Caruthers (Trial and Execution of)
aka: James X. Caruthers and Bubbles Clayton (Trial and Execution of)
The trial and conviction of African American farm laborers Bubbles ...
Arkansas Loan and Thrift
Arkansas Loan and Thrift Corporation (AL&T) was a hybrid bank that operated for three years outside state ...
Ashley County Lynching of 1857
Prior to the Civil War, most lynchings in Arkansas and across the nation (particularly on the frontier) took ...
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...
Andrew Avery (Lynching of)
On July 30, 1917, an African-American man named Andrew Avery was lynched for allegedly attacking a levee contr...
Bagley-Ridgeway Feud
“Officer Uses a Pistol Fatally,” an Arkansas Gazette headline stated on March 5, 1905. The incident that l...
George Bailey (Lynching of)
Sometime during the night of December 19–20, 1909, an African-American man named George Bailey was shot to d...
James Bailey (Lynching of)
On July 9, 1891, James Bailey was hanged from a railroad crossing sign in Beebe (White County) for allegedly a...
Cullen Montgomery Baker (1835–1869)
Cullen Baker was one of the most notorious outlaws in the United States in the period following the Civil War....
Eugene Baker (Lynching of)
On July 30, 1892, Eugene Baker (sometimes referred to as Dan Baker), who allegedly murdered a white man in Ash...
Norman Baker (1882–1958)
Norman Glenwood Baker is best known in Arkansas as a promoter of alternative medicine who settled in Eureka Sp...
Isadore Banks (Murder of)
Isadore Banks, a fifty-nine-year-old prominent African-American landowner, disappeared on June 4, 1954. Banks...
Ella Barham (Murder of)
The 1912 murder of eighteen-year-old Ella Barham in Boone County was one of the most gruesome events to occur ...
Barker (Reported Lynching of)
According to stories circulating in state newspapers in July and August 1883, a Grant County man named Barker ...
Barker-Karpis Gang
aka: Ma Barker Gang
The Barker-Karpis Gang, later known as the “Ma Barker Gang,” wa...
John Barnett (Lynching of)
On April 17, 1905, an African-American levee worker named John Barnett was hanged by a black mob near Askew (L...
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...