Parties & Interest Groups

AARP Arkansas
With its state headquarters in Little Rock (Pulaski County), AARP Arkansas is affiliated with the national org...
American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas
aka: ACLU of Arkansas
aka: Arkansas ACLU
The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas (ACLU of Arkansas) i...
American Independent Party
The American Independent Party was a national third party formed in 1967 as a protest to the civil rights poli...
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) is a nonprofit policy advocacy organization that was forme...
Arkansas Anti-Saloon League
The Arkansas Anti-Saloon League was fully established in 1907 in affiliation with the national Anti-Saloon Lea...
Arkansas Association for the Deaf
The Arkansas Association of the Deaf (AAD) has provided leadership and advocacy on behalf of deaf and hard-of-...
Arkansas Libertarian Party
aka: Libertarian Party of Arkansas
The Arkansas Libertarian Party is a state affiliate of the national...
Arkansas Negro Democratic Association (ANDA)
The Arkansas Negro Democratic Association (ANDA) was founded in 1928 by Little Rock (Pulaski County) physician...
Arkansas Right to Life
Arkansas Right to Life is a nonprofit organization whose stated purpose is to “educate through the presentat...
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
aka: ACORN
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) w...
Black and Tan Republicans
The Republican Party of Arkansas was formed in April 1867. Powell Clayton—a Union officer during the Civil W...
Brindletails [Political Faction]
Dissention within the Republican Party of Arkansas began following the 1868 constitutional convention. The sch...
Brothers of Freedom
One of several farmers’ organizations formed in Arkansas during the early 1880s, the Brothers of Freedom ori...
Robbie Gill Comer (1883–1963)
Robbie Gill Comer was instrumental in the founding of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan (WKKK) and served as its I...
Common Cause/Arkansas (CC/Arkansas)
Common Cause/Arkansas (CC/Arkansas) is a nonpartisan government watchdog group that has had a significant impa...
Communist Party
The Arkansas Communist Party reached the peak of its influence between 1932 and 1940. Loosely affiliated at th...
Democratic Party
Even for the historically one-party Democratic South, the Democratic Party’s control of Arkansas politics wa...
The Family [Political Dynasty]
“The Family”—or “The Dynasty”—was the name given to a powerful group of Democrats who dominated Ar...
Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)
The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization for Union veterans. The first GAR posts (cha...
Green Party (GPA)
The Green Party of Arkansas (GPA) began in 1996 when a group of Arkansans gathered for the purpose of adding R...
Greenback Party
Arkansas’s Greenback Party emerged in the political tumult of the post-Reconstruction era in the late 1870s,...
Hate Groups
Both the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) use the term “hate group”...
Know-Nothing Party
aka: American Party
Following the collapse of their party nationally in 1852, many Arka...
Ku Klux Klan (after 1900)
The original Ku Klux Klan (KKK) formed sometime between 1865 and 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee. Nathan Bedford Fo...
Ku Klux Klan (Reconstruction)
The Reconstruction era in Arkansas witnessed the first of many incarnations of the state’s most well-known w...
League of Women Voters of Arkansas
aka: Arkansas League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters (LWV), a nonpartisan political organizat...
Lily White Republicans
The post-Reconstruction “Redemption” era witnessed Democratic Party forces sweeping Republicans from all b...
Minstrels [Political Faction]
By 1872, the hopes of reconstructing the South along Republican political lines were waning. The Arkansas Repu...
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
aka: NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAA...
National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union of America
aka: Southern Farmers' Alliance
aka: Farmers' Alliance
aka: Arkansas State Farmers’ Alliance
The National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union, more commonl...
National Grange of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry
aka: The Grange
aka: Arkansas State Grange
aka: Patrons of Husbandry
In December 1867, Oliver Hudson Kelley, a former clerk in the U.S. ...
National States Rights Party
Formed in late 1950s, the National States Rights Party was a white supremacist political party that operated u...