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Pernella Anderson (1903–1980)
Pernella Mae Center Anderson of El Dorado (Union County) was one of Arkansas’s two African-American intervie...
Older white woman in black posing with an open book on a table
Arkansas Writers Project
The Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) served as a cultural anchor for Arkansas during the years of the Great De...
Log cabin with separate entrances and brick chimney
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was one of the first federal relief programs under President Franklin D. ...
Arched stone block sign frame with fences and trees in the background
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
A brainchild of newly elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the New Deal program the Civilian Conservat...
Car parked in front of single-story building next to brick storefront with awning
Dyess (Mississippi County)
aka: Dyess Colony Resettlement Area
One of the most famous “resettlement colonies” for impoverished...
Pair of two-story wood frame buildings with bridge between
Education Reform
Education reform, the process of improving public education through changes in public policy, has been slow an...
Farmers drive mule team with plows in dirt field
Farm Resettlement Projects
aka: Resettlement Administration
aka: Farm Security Administration
Many of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs were ...
Two story wooden houseboat moored at riverbank
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...
"The Indian Armistice" newspaper clipping
Fort Smith Council
The gathering of Native Americans, Arkansas territorial officials, and U.S. government representatives held in...
Two story brick home with small stoop in large tree shade by street parked car
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...
White man in suit and tie with buildings behind him
Joseph Boone Hunter (1886–1987)
Joseph Boone Hunter was Director of Human Services at the World War II–era Japanese American Relocation Cent...
aerial view of military base with many uniformly shaped white buildings in rows
Indochinese Resettlement Program
aka: Operation New Life
In 1975, the state of Arkansas was tapped by the federal government...
Crowd of Asian-American children stand in rows holding hands over head in field near housing units.
Japanese American Relocation Camps
After Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, and America’s subsequent decla...
Crowd of Asian-American children stand in rows holding hands over head in field near housing units.
Jerome Relocation Center
The Japanese American relocation site at Jerome (in Drew County and partially in Chicot County) was listed on ...
Farmers drive mule team with plows in dirt field
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...
Four men stand by large stone marker in ankle high water swamp near bald cypress
Louisiana Purchase
In 1803, the United States government purchased over 800,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi Rive...
Stamp "United States Postage Arkansas River Navigation Six cents" showing ships wheel, barge, electricity pylon
McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (MKARNS)
The McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (MKARNS) was the largest civil works project ever underta...
sign outside fence with three water towers and buildings in background
National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR)
The National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) in Jefferson (Jefferson County) is thirty-five miles sou...
White man with glasses in suit and tie sitting at his desk
National Education Program
The National Education Program (NEP) was founded by Harding College (now Harding University) president George ...
Man with cowboy hat standing outside stone building with bench and trees in the foreground
National Youth Administration
The National Youth Administration (NYA) was the last of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal progr...
Panorama of kitchen, barracks, uniformed men, truck, and rock walls, hand-signed "C.C.C. Camp Nodak - Plainview, Ark. 11-8-33"
New Deal
In many ways, Arkansas experienced the hardship of the Great Depression of the 1930s even before the stock mar...
Older African-American woman seated at her desk with reflection in mirror behind her
NYA Camp Bethune
aka: Camp Bethune
National Youth Administration (NYA) Camp Bethune was part of a New ...
"The Emigrating Indians" newspaper clipping
Office of Removal and Subsistence
The United States government opened the federal Office of Removal and Subsistence for territory west of the Mi...
Farmer on horse drawn wagon loaded with hay passing by parked car on dirt road in residential neighborhood
Plum Bayou Project
The Plum Bayou Project was part of a New Deal plan designed to help rural residents receive federal relief and...
"That Committee" newspaper clipping
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...
Woodcarvings on wall above labeled wooden frames saying postmaster and bulletin
Post Office Art
Arkansas has nineteen Depression-era works of art created for U.S. post office buildings. Two are sculpture ba...
Stamp "United States Postage Arkansas River Navigation Six cents" showing ships wheel, barge, electricity pylon
Postage Stamps with Arkansas Connections
Special stamps are created to recognize people, events, and themes of national interest. They reflect popular ...
Two-story brick building with flag pole on street
Public Works Administration
The U.S. Congress passed the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) on June 16, 1933, as part of President Fr...
White woman standing with three Japanese-American women and four Japanese-American men kneeling in front of them
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...
Domed building seen through bare trees beyond a barbed wire fence with sign
Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor (SEFOR)
The Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor (SEFOR), which is located east of Strickler in rural Washington ...