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"Another Victim" newspaper clipping

Parker Execution Article

White woman with guns on her belt leaning against car with a 1933 Texas license plate

White man with beard and mustache

Judge Isaac Parker

Statue of white man sitting in chair with open book on round base

Judge Parker Statue

"The Hanging of Parrent" newspaper clipping

Joe Parrent Lynching Article

"$200 Reward" newspaper clipping

Joe Parrent Reward Article

"Negro lynched early today at Forrest City" newspaper clipping

William Patrick Lynching Article

"Negro slayer spirited away" newspaper clipping

William Patrick Lynching Article

"Lynching averted at Forrest City" newspaper clipping

William Patrick Lynching Article

Brick wall with gate and round brick tower

Penitentiary Entrance

"A Lee County Murderer Expiates His Devilish Deeds" newspaper clipping

Albert Peters Execution Story

"Frightened but Nervy" newspaper clipping

Albert Peters Execution Story

Drawing of African American man in suit jacket

Albert Peters Portrait

"Wife Murderer Pettus Respited" newspaper clipping

Phillip Pettus Execution Story

"Pettus Hanged" newspaper clipping

Phillip Pettus Execution Story

"Reaped His Reward" newspaper clipping

Phillips County Lynching Article

"Murder in Phillips County" newspaper clipping

Phillips County Lynching Article

Ruins of two-story concrete building with corner entrance and graffiti

Phillips County Penal Farm Historic District

square concrete water tower in field

Phillips County Penal Farm Water Tower

low brick building with bars on its windows on dirt road

Phillips County Penal Farm Cells

Cell door and bars inside ruins of concrete cell block building

Phillips County Penal Farm Cell Block

"An Arkansas lynching" newspaper clipping

Phillips Lynching Article

"A Fatal Blow" newspaper clipping

Pine Bluff Lynching Article

"Essex Pipkin Hanged for Rape" newspaper clipping

Essex Pipkin Execution Article

Three-thousand-dollar reward poster with black ink on yellow paper

Plumerville Conflict Reward Poster

"Poe pays penalty for awful crime" newspaper clipping

Harry Poe Execution Article

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Police and Court Building

"Roasted Alive!" newspaper clipping

Polk Brothers Lynching Article

"Mob kills slayer of Sheriff's aide" newspaper clipping

Charles Powell Lynching Article

"Lynching at Huttig" newspaper clipping

Sam Powell Lynching Article

"Negro is found hanging to tree" newspaper clipping

Sam Powell Lynching Article

White man in suit standing in room full of hospital beds

Prison Hospital

Multistory building with corner tower and single-story extension

Prison Hospital

African-American man in suit sitting at table with two white men with crowd seated behind them

Prison Reform Meeting

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Pulaski County Jail

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Pulaski County Jail

"Attempted Robbery" newspaper clipping

Pulaski County Lynching Article

"A Ghastly Find" newspaper clipping

Pulaski County Lynching Article

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White man in suit and tie

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