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white man in embroidered black shirt and white woman in turtleneck and white jacket smiling in front of trees "Tony and Susan Alamo Tony Alamo sings Mister DJ"
Tony Alamo (1934–2017)
aka: Tony Alamo Christian Ministries
Tony Alamo was a well-known evangelist who, after a radical convers...
Allen-Oden Duel
An Arkansas territorial legislator was mortally wounded on March 10, 1820, in the first recorded duel fought i...
"Judge Lynch" newspaper clipping
Henry Allen (Lynching of)
Henry Allen was lynched in Jacksonport (Jackson County) on September 10, 1881, three days after he stabbed a m...
"Death at hands of unknown mob" newspaper clipping
Louis Allwhite (Lynching of)
Louis Allwhite, a white man, was lynched just outside of Newport (Jackson County) on December 31, 1904, for ha...
"Dear Colonel" letter in newspaper on August 19, 1849
Alph (Lynching of)
A mob of white residents of Benton County lynched Alph, an enslaved African-American man, on August 20, 1849. ...
"Helena. The Murderer of Constable Blount Killed by a Posse" newspaper clipping
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...
"Short Shrift. A Negro outrages a white lady in Pine Bluff" newspaper clipping
James Anderson (Lynching of)
On December 5, 1880 (one source gives the date as December 4), an African American man named James Anderson wa...
"Negro met quick justice" newspaper clipping
William Anderson (Lynching of)
On July 8, 1906, an African American named William Anderson was hanged from a telephone pole just south of Til...
Portrait painting of white man formal dress with pocket watch chain
Joseph J. Anthony (Murder of)
The only recorded violent death on the floor of the Arkansas General Assembly occurred on December 4, 1837, in...
"Knocked down and robbed" newspaper clipping
James Arcene (1862?–1885)
James Arcene, a Cherokee man, was sentenced to death for a crime he committed years before. While aspects of h...
"Triple Lynch" newspaper clipping
Arkadelphia Lynching of 1879
aka: Lynching of Daniels Family
In late January 1879, Ben Daniels and two of his sons—who were ac...
African-American man with round glasses in suit jacket and tie
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 ...
White man in suit sitting in chair before wife, son, and daughter, with bookshelves behind them
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 ...
"Lawless Negroes" newspaper clipping
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...
"State News" newspaper clipping
Wash Atkinson (Lynching of)
On December 6, 1877, an African-American man named Wash Atkinson was hanged by a mob in Arkadelphia (Clark Cou...
"Negro is lynched at Garland City" newspaper clipping
Andrew Avery (Lynching of)
On July 30, 1917, an African-American man named Andrew Avery was lynched for allegedly attacking a levee contr...
"Officer uses a pistol fatally" newspaper clipping
Bagley-Ridgeway Feud
“Officer Uses a Pistol Fatally,” an Arkansas Gazette headline stated on March 5, 1905. The incident that l...
"Mob kills Negro riot threatened" newspaper clipping
George Bailey (Lynching of)
Sometime during the night of December 19–20, 1909, an African-American man named George Bailey was shot to d...
"Beebe's Black Brute" newspaper article
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....
"Ashley County Mob" newspaper clipping
Eugene Baker (Lynching of)
On July 30, 1892, Eugene Baker (sometimes referred to as Dan Baker), who allegedly murdered a white man in Ash...
postcard of multistoried light building with gabled roofs and chimneys "The Baker Hospital Eureka Springs Arkansas"
Norman Baker (1882–1958)
Norman Glenwood Baker is best known in Arkansas as a promoter of alternative medicine who settled in Eureka Sp...
White man with thinning hair wearing small round glasses dressed in suit and diamond shaped pin attached to a tie
Aloysius Burton Banks (1868–1953)
aka: A. B. Banks
Little Rock (Pulaski County) native Aloysius Burton Banks became de...
Isadore Banks (Murder of)
Isadore Banks, a fifty-nine-year-old prominent African-American landowner, disappeared on June 4, 1954. Banks...
Two young white women in white dresses standing against building with wooden siding
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 ...
"Splitting his daughter's head with an ax" newspaper clipping
Barker (Reported Lynching of)
According to stories circulating in state newspapers in July and August 1883, a Grant County man named Barker ...
White man in striped shirt with "K.S.P. 1539" sign
Barker-Karpis Gang
aka: Ma Barker Gang
The Barker-Karpis Gang, later known as the “Ma Barker Gang,” wa...
"Negroes Lynch A Negro" newspaper clipping
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...
"Negro murderer burned at stake" newspaper clipping
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...
"The Bloody Mob and Its Victims" newspaper clipping
Bearden Lynching of 1893
On May 9, 1893, three African Americans were lynched in Bearden (Ouachita County) for what was called a “mur...