The Agricultural Wheel was a state farmers’ union, founded in the Arkansas Delta, which expanded into ten ot...

The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission is a quasi-judicial agency of the executive branch of Arkansas...

Alfred (Alf) Banks was one of twelve African-American men accused of murder following the Elaine Massacre of 1...

Jerome Bill Becker served as president of the Arkansas American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial...

The Bonanza Race War of 1904 was a race riot/labor war that occurred in the coal-mining city of Bonanza (Sebas...

To ensure that U.S. farmers had sufficient labor, the U.S. State Department and the Mexican Foreign Affairs De...

In the spring of 1888, the coal mining operations in Johnson County, worked by convict leased labor, were the ...

Ed Coleman was one of twelve African-American men accused of murder and sentenced to death following the Elain...

The Cotton Pickers Strike of 1891 was an ill-conceived attempt by a group of African-American sharecroppers in...

The Crossett Strike of 1940 was a fifty-eight-day work stoppage in the lumber and manufacturing town of Crosse...

In 1950, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America began organizing workers at poultry...

John Samuel (Sam) Faubus was a hardscrabble farmer whose struggles to make a living for his large family from ...

On September 19, 1917, women who were employed as telephone operators by the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. i...

Albert Giles was one of twelve African-American men accused of murder following the Elaine Massacre of 1919. A...

At its height, the Great Southwestern Strike of 1886 shut down railway lines in five states (Arkansas, Illinoi...

Amis Robert Guthridge was a Little Rock (Pulaski County) attorney and businessman best known for his role in o...

Thomas J. Hagerty was a Roman Catholic priest and social activist. He was originally involved in the Socialist...

During the 1880s and 1890s, Willie Blount Wright Heartsill (whose first name was pronounced “Wylie” and wh...

Ed Hicks was one of twelve African-American men accused of murder following the Elaine Massacre of 1919. After...

Robert Lee Hill was an African-American leader who was forced to flee Arkansas during the bloody Elaine Massac...

Zilphia Mae Johnson Horton was an influential educator, folklorist, musician, and social justice activist who ...

The largest American labor organization of its era, the Knights of Labor (KOL) recruited workers across bounda...

Soon after Arkansas’s 1836 admission to the Union, wage workers in the state began uniting for their mutual ...

Grace Lorch, wife of Philander Smith College mathematics professor Lee Lorch, was a civil rights and labor rig...

In September 1858, a group of white workingmen in Little Rock (Pulaski County) formed one of the state’s fir...

Harry Leland Mitchell was a lifelong union activist and co-founder of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union (ST...

Frank Moore was one of twelve African-American men accused of murder and sentenced to death following the Elai...

Winfield Scott Morgan (better known as W. Scott Morgan) lived in Arkansas for most of his life. As a writer, e...