World War II to Faubus Era

Andrew Lee Anderson (Killing of)
On July 17, 1963, an African American teenager named Andrew Lee Anderson was killed while fleeing from a posse...
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...
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 ...
Isadore Banks (Murder of)
Isadore Banks, a fifty-nine-year-old prominent African-American landowner, disappeared on June 4, 1954. Banks...
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (1914?–1999)
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates was a mentor to the Little Rock Nine, the African American students who integrated Cent...
Lucious Christopher (L. C.) Bates (1904–1980)
Lucious Christopher (L.C.) Bates was the founder of the Arkansas State Press newspaper. Under his direction, t...
Branton v. State
When the U.S. Supreme Court declared in 1944 that Southern states could no longer bar African Americans from v...
Wiley Austin Branton Sr. (1923–1988)
Wiley Austin Branton was a civil rights leader in Arkansas who helped desegregate the University of Arkansas S...
Arthur Brann Caldwell (1906–1987)
Arthur Brann Caldwell served in several capacities with the federal government over nearly four decades, inclu...
Civil Rights Movement (Twentieth Century)
The 1957 desegregation crisis at Central High School in Little Rock (Pulaski County) is often viewed as the mo...
Committee on Negro Organizations (CNO)
The Committee on Negro Organizations (CNO) was an Arkansas-based civil rights organization that focused its ef...
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is a civil rights organization founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942 th...
Council on Community Affairs (COCA)
The Council on Community Affairs (COCA) was an African-American civil rights leadership group in Little Rock (...
Lee Edward Culbreath (Murder of)
Lee Edward Culbreath, a fourteen-year-old Black youth, was shot to death on December 5, 1965, in Portland (Ash...
Daisy Bates et al. v. City of Little Rock
aka: Bates v. City of Little Rock
Daisy Bates et al. v. City of Little Rock, 361 U.S. 516 (1960) was ...
Edmondson Home and Improvement Company v. Harold E. Weaver
Edmondson Home and Improvement Company v. Harold E. Weaver was a civil suit in the Crittenden County Chancery ...
William Harold Flowers (1911–1990)
William Harold Flowers was a lawyer, minister, social and political activist, and one of the leading figures i...
Thomas P. Foster (Killing of)
In 1942, during World War II, a Little Rock (Pulaski County) police officer shot and killed Sergeant Thomas P....
Freedom Centers, Houses, Schools, and Libraries
While operating in Arkansas, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) established numerous Freedom...
Freedom Rides
The Freedom Rides were a tactic employed by civil rights demonstrators in 1961 to place pressure on the federa...
John Gammon Jr. (1904–1988)
John Gammon Jr. was a founder and first president of the Arkansas Negro Farmers Association, in addition to be...
Marlon DeWitt Green (1929–2009)
In 1963, Marlon DeWitt Green, an Arkansas-born African American and former U.S. Air Force pilot, broke the air...
Geleve Grice (1922–2004)
Capturing some of the most powerful aspects of African-American life from the mundane to the sublime, Geleve G...
Nathaniel Robadeau (Nat) Griswold (1901–1991)
The Reverend Nathaniel R. Griswold worked toward greater education, tolerance, and spiritual understanding in ...
Bill Hansen (1939–)
aka: William Hansen
William (Bill) Hansen, a longtime political activist, was the first...
Theressa Hoover (1925–2013)
Theressa Hoover worked for human rights and unity through the United Methodist Church for nearly fifty years. ...
Helen Booker Ivey (1896?–1946)
Helen Booker Ivey was a longtime teacher and principal in Little Rock (Pulaski County) public schools. The Col...
Japanese American Relocation Camps
After Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, and America’s subsequent decla...
Edith Irby Jones (1927–2019)
Edith Irby Jones was the first African American to attend and to graduate from the University of Arkansas Medi...
Lena Lowe Jordan (1884–1950)
Lena Lowe Jordan was an African American registered nurse and hospital administrator who managed two instituti...