Freda Hogan Ameringer was a journalist, Socialist Party official, and labor activist in Sebastian County; she...

When President Lyndon Johnson took office in 1963, he declared war on poverty. The nation’s poverty rate was...

Annie Mae Bankhead was a longtime civic and civil rights activist whose efforts made her a pillar of College S...

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

One of several farmers’ organizations formed in Arkansas during the early 1880s, the Brothers of Freedom ori...

Ida Hayman Callery was a teacher, suffragist, feminist, and socialist organizer in Arkansas prior to World War...

The Central Arkansas Development Council (CADC) was developed in direct response to the Economic Opportunity A...

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

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...

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

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

Dan Hogan was a socialist activist in Arkansas. A lawyer and journalist, Hogan embodied “witty and intellect...

Large numbers of homeless people live in Arkansas. Looking at data for people who received a funded service, e...

Edd Jeffords was one of the most visible figures in the Arkansas counter-culture movement centered in Eureka S...

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

Landlord-tenant law is divided into two types: residential and commercial. Because commercial landlord-tenant ...

During the 1880s and early 1890s, Isom P. Langley was a leading figure in the farmer and labor movements in Ar...

Claude Lightfoot was an Arkansas-born Communist who became involved in politics after moving to Chicago, Illin...

Lucie’s Place of Little Rock (Pulaski County) is a nonprofit organization providing support for LGBTQ+ (lesb...

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

Marion Monden Noble was an Arkansas-born lifelong communist who is one of three Arkansans known to have served...

From 1976 until its end in 1983, the Ozark Institute (OI) created job programs, provided advocacy for a dwindl...

Pellagra is a form of malnutrition caused by a severe deficiency of niacin (also known as nicotinic acid or v...

In 2008, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that the national average of individuals living in poverty was 13.2 p...

Johnnie Pugh, a pioneer in community organizing, advocacy, and activism, was instrumental in building one of t...

Wade Rathke is a longtime community organizer and the founder of the Association of Community Organizations fo...

The Sebastian County Union War of 1914 is one of the major instances of labor contention and violence in the s...