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AARP Arkansas
With its state headquarters in Little Rock (Pulaski County), AARP Arkansas is affiliated with the national org...
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American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas
aka: ACLU of Arkansas
aka: Arkansas ACLU
The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas (ACLU of Arkansas) i...
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American Independent Party
The American Independent Party was a national third party formed in 1967 as a protest to the civil rights poli...
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Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) is a nonprofit policy advocacy organization that was forme...
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Arkansas Anti-Saloon League
The Arkansas Anti-Saloon League was fully established in 1907 in affiliation with the national Anti-Saloon Lea...
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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...
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Arkansas Negro Democratic Association (ANDA)
The Arkansas Negro Democratic Association (ANDA) was founded in 1928 by Little Rock (Pulaski County) physician...
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Arkansas Right to Life
Arkansas Right to Life is a nonprofit organization whose stated purpose is to “educate through the presentat...
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Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
aka: ACORN
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) w...
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Black and Tan Republicans
The Republican Party of Arkansas was formed in April 1867. Powell Clayton—a Union officer during the Civil W...
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Brindletails [Political Faction]
Dissention within the Republican Party of Arkansas began following the 1868 constitutional convention. The sch...
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Brothers of Freedom
One of several farmers’ organizations formed in Arkansas during the early 1880s, the Brothers of Freedom ori...
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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...
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Democratic Party
Even for the historically one-party Democratic South, the Democratic Party’s control of Arkansas politics wa...
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The Family [Political Dynasty]
“The Family”—or “The Dynasty”—was the name given to a powerful group of Democrats who dominated Ar...
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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...
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Green Party (GPA)
The Green Party of Arkansas (GPA) began in 1996 when a group of Arkansans gathered for the purpose of adding R...
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Greenback Party
Arkansas’s Greenback Party emerged in the political tumult of the post-Reconstruction era in the late 1870s,...
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Hate Groups
Both the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) use the term “hate group”...
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Know-Nothing Party
aka: American Party
Following the collapse of their party nationally in 1852, many Arka...
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Ku Klux Klan (after 1900)
The original Ku Klux Klan (KKK) formed sometime between 1865 and 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee. Nathan Bedford Fo...
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Ku Klux Klan (Reconstruction)
The Reconstruction era in Arkansas witnessed the first of many incarnations of the state’s most well-known w...
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League of Women Voters of Arkansas
aka: Arkansas League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters (LWV), a nonpartisan political organizat...
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Lily White Republicans
The post-Reconstruction “Redemption” era witnessed Democratic Party forces sweeping Republicans from all b...
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Minstrels [Political Faction]
By 1872, the hopes of reconstructing the South along Republican political lines were waning. The Arkansas Repu...
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
aka: NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAA...
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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...
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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. ...
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National States Rights Party
Formed in late 1950s, the National States Rights Party was a white supremacist political party that operated u...