Projects

Pernella Anderson (1903–1980)
Pernella Mae Center Anderson of El Dorado (Union County) was one of Arkansas’s two African-American intervie...
Arkansas Writers Project
The Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) served as a cultural anchor for Arkansas during the years of the Great De...
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was one of the first federal relief programs under President Franklin D. ...
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
A brainchild of newly elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) began...
Dyess (Mississippi County)
aka: Dyess Colony Resettlement Area
One of the most famous “resettlement colonies” for impoverished...
Education Reform
Education reform, the process of improving public education through changes in public policy, has been slow an...
Farm Resettlement Projects
aka: Resettlement Administration
aka: Farm Security Administration
Many of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs were ...
Floating CCC Camp at Jacks Bay
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) side camp BF-2 at Jacks Bay in Arkansas County was distinct from most ot...
Fort Smith Council
The gathering of Native Americans, Arkansas territorial officials, and U.S. government representatives held in...
Freedmen's Bureau
aka: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
Congress established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandone...
HumanitiesAR
aka: Arkansas Endowment for the Humanities
The Arkansas Endowment for the Humanities, known since its early da...
Joseph Boone Hunter (1886–1987)
Joseph Boone Hunter was Director of Human Services at the World War II–era Japanese American Relocation Cent...
Indochinese Resettlement Program
aka: Operation New Life
In 1975, the state of Arkansas was tapped by the federal government...
Japanese American Relocation Camps
After Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, and America’s subsequent decla...
Jerome Relocation Center
The Japanese American relocation site at Jerome (in Drew County and partially in Chicot County) was listed on ...
Lake Dick
The area of Lake Dick, a U-shaped oxbow lake in Jefferson County, was the site of a New Deal program in agricu...
Louisiana Purchase
In 1803, the United States government purchased over 800,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi Rive...
McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (MKARNS)
The McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (MKARNS) was the largest civil works project ever underta...
National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR)
The National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) in Jefferson (Jefferson County) is thirty-five miles sou...
National Education Program
The National Education Program (NEP) was founded by Harding College (now Harding University) president George ...
National Youth Administration
The National Youth Administration (NYA) was the last of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal progr...
New Deal
In many ways, Arkansas experienced the hardship of the Great Depression of the 1930s even before the stock mar...
NYA Camp Bethune
aka: Camp Bethune
National Youth Administration (NYA) Camp Bethune was part of a New ...
Office of Removal and Subsistence
The United States government opened the federal Office of Removal and Subsistence for territory west of the Mi...
Plum Bayou Project
The Plum Bayou Project was part of a New Deal plan designed to help rural residents receive federal relief and...
Poland Committee
aka: Select Committee to Inquire into Conditions of the Affairs in the State of Arkansas
The Poland Committee was a congressional committee established by t...
Post Office Art
Arkansas has nineteen Depression-era works of art created for U.S. post office buildings. Two are sculpture ba...
Postage Stamps with Arkansas Connections
Special stamps are created to recognize people, events, and themes of national interest. They reflect popular ...
Public Works Administration
The U.S. Congress passed the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) on June 16, 1933, as part of President Fr...
Rohwer Relocation Center
The Rohwer Relocation Center in Desha County was one of two World War II–era incarceration camps built in th...
Willous Floyd Sharp (1896–1969)
Willous Floyd Sharp was a longtime government official. While he served in a number of different capacities at...
Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor (SEFOR)
The Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor (SEFOR), which is located east of Strickler in rural Washington ...