Entry Category: Modern Era

Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission
Black Americans for Democracy (BAD)
aka: Students Taking a New Direction (STAND)
aka: Black Students Association (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville)
Black Lives Matter
Black Power Movement









Blytheville Boycotts of 1970–1971


Brown, Evangeline Katherine



Cleaver, Leroy Eldridge
College Station Freedom School
Cuban Refugee Crisis
Earle Race Riot of 1970

Ellison, Eugene (Killing of)


Gregory, Dick (Arrest of)
Hispanic Women’s Organization of Arkansas (HWOA)
Hollingsworth, Perlesta Arthur “Les”
Hutton, Bobby James
Jackson, Gertrude Newsome


Little Rock School Desegregation Cases (1982–2014)
aka: Little Rock School District, et al v. Pulaski County Special School District et al.
Little Rock Uprising of 1968
March Against Fear (1969)
aka: Walk Against Fear (1969)
Marianna Boycotts of 1971–1972
McIntosh, Robert “Say”
National Black Political Convention (1974)



Pike, Annie Zachary
Reed, Adolph Sr.
