Race

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Aaron v. Cooper
aka: Cooper v. Aaron
Aaron v. Cooper, reversed by the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Ci...
Annie Mable McDaniel Abrams (1931–)
Annie Mable McDaniel Abrams is a retired educator and a political, social, civic, and community activist in Li...
Act 10 of 1958 [Affidavit Law]
A special session of the Arkansas General Assembly passed Act 10 in 1958 as one of sixteen bills designed to b...
Act 115 of 1959 [Anti-NAACP Law]
In 1959, the Arkansas General Assembly passed Act 115 as one of sixteen bills designed to bypass federal deseg...
Act 151 of 1859
aka: Act to Remove the Free Negroes and Mulattos from the State
aka: Arkansas's Free Negro Expulsion Act of 1859
The Arkansas General Assembly passed a bill in February 1859 that b...
Act 258 of 1909
aka: Toney Bill to Prevent Lynching
Act 258 of 1909 was a law intended to prevent citizens from engagin...
Alph (Lynching of)
A mob of white residents of Benton County lynched Alph, an enslaved African-American man, on August 20, 1849. ...
American Krusaders
The American Krusaders was an organization founded in 1923 that claimed Little Rock (Pulaski County) as its ...
American Missionary Association
The American Missionary Association (AMA) was a nondenominational abolitionist society dedicated to providing ...
Americans for Immigration Moratorium (AIM)
Founded in Rogers (Benton County) in 1997, Americans for an Immigration Moratorium (AIM) was an organization t...
Wyatt Ames (Lynching of)
On October 15 or 16, 1883, an African-American man named Wyatt Ames was shot to death near Lexington (some rep...
Andrew Lee Anderson (Killing of)
On July 17, 1963, an African American teenager named Andrew Lee Anderson was killed while fleeing from a posse...
James Anderson (Lynching of)
On December 5, 1880 (one source gives the date as December 4), an African American man named James Anderson wa...
William Anderson (Lynching of)
On July 8, 1906, an African American named William Anderson was hanged from a telephone pole just south of Til...
Anti-miscegenation Laws
Anti-miscegenation laws were edicts that made it unlawful for African Americans and white people to marry or e...
Anti-Semitism
Relations between Jews and the rest of the population were generally amicable throughout the South in the nine...
Appeal of the Arkansas Exiles to Christians throughout the World
The “Appeal of the Arkansas Exiles to Christians throughout the World” was a plea for assistance written b...
Argenta Race Riot of 1906
aka: Lynching of Homer G. Blackman
Ignited by the slayings of two African American men in separate inc...
Arkadelphia Lynching of 1879
aka: Lynching of Daniels Family
In late January 1879, Ben Daniels and two of his sons—who were ac...
Arkansas "Scottsboro" Case
aka: Bubbles Clayton and James X. Caruthers (Trial and Execution of)
aka: James X. Caruthers and Bubbles Clayton (Trial and Execution of)
The trial and conviction of African American farm laborers Bubbles ...
Arkansas Association of Colored Women
aka: Arkansas Association of Colored Women’s and Girls Federated Clubs, Inc.
aka: Arkansas Association of Women’s Clubs, Inc.
aka: Arkansas Association of Women, Youth, and Young Adults Clubs, Inc.
The Arkansas Association of Colored Women (AACW) was organized in 1...
Arkansas Black Hall of Fame
The Arkansas Black Hall of Fame was founded in 1992 by Charles O. Stewart and Patricia Y. Goodwin as a means o...
Arkansas Council on Human Relations (ACHR)
A key facilitator in the desegregation of public schools and businesses in the state, the Arkansas Council on ...
Arkansas Faith
Arkansas Faith was a short-lived newsletter published by the White Citizens’ Council of Arkansas in 1955 and...
Arkansas League of the South
The League of the South was founded in 1994 with the announced intention of explaining and celebrating the Sou...
Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission
The Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission was created by Act 1216 of 1993. It is an offshoot of the Marti...
Arkansas Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association
The Arkansas Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association (AMDPA) was founded in 1893 by a group of African...
Arkansas Negro Democratic Association (ANDA)
The Arkansas Negro Democratic Association (ANDA) was founded in 1928 by Little Rock (Pulaski County) physician...
The Arkansas Race Riot [Pamphlet]
“The Arkansas Race Riot” is a 1920 pamphlet that constitutes a critical source of information about the El...
Desegregation of the Arkansas State Capitol
In 1964, Ozell Sutton, an African American man, sought to exercise his right to eat at the Arkansas State Ca...
Arkansas State Press
The weekly Arkansas State Press newspaper was founded in Little Rock (Pulaski County) in 1941 by civil rights ...
Arkansas State Sovereignty Commission
aka: State Sovereignty Commission
The Arkansas State Sovereignty Commission (ASSC) was created in Feb...