Events

David Akles (Execution of)
On July 17, 1885, an African American man named David Akles (sometimes referred to as Ackles) was hanged in He...
Albert Krantz v. City of Fort Smith
aka: Krantz v. City of Fort Smith
Albert Krantz v. City of Fort Smith was a 1998 decision by the Eigh...
Allen-Oden Duel
An Arkansas territorial legislator was mortally wounded on March 10, 1820, in the first recorded duel fought i...
Henry Allen (Lynching of)
Henry Allen was lynched in Jacksonport (Jackson County) on September 10, 1881, three days after he stabbed a m...
Louis Allwhite (Lynching of)
Louis Allwhite, a white man, was lynched just outside of Newport (Jackson County) on December 31, 1904, for ha...
Alph (Lynching of)
A mob of white residents of Benton County lynched Alph, an enslaved African-American man, on August 20, 1849. ...
Aluminum Bowl
On December 22, 1956, War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock (Pulaski County) hosted the Aluminum Bowl football g...
American Airlines Flight 1420
American Airlines Flight 1420 departed Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on June 1, 1999, en route to wh...
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...
Charles Anderson (Execution of)
Charles Anderson, a twenty-one-year-old Black man, was hanged at Little Rock (Pulaski County) on July 26, 1901...
Clint Anderson (Execution of)
Clint Anderson was an African American man hanged in Little Rock (Pulaski County) on August 30, 1878, for the ...
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...
Joseph J. Anthony (Murder of)
The only recorded violent death on the floor of the Arkansas General Assembly occurred on December 4, 1837, in...
Argenta Race Riot of 1906
aka: Lynching of Homer G. Blackman
Ignited by the slayings of two African American men in separate inc...
Arkadelphia Executions of 1889
Three African American men—Dan Jones, Anderson Mitchell, and Willis Green—were hanged on March 15, 1889, i...
Arkadelphia Lynching of 1879
aka: Lynching of Daniels Family
In late January 1879, Ben Daniels and two of his sons—who were ac...
Skirmish at Arkadelphia
After capturing Little Rock (Pulaski County) and Fort Smith (Sebastian County) in September 1863, Union forces...
Arkansans for Limited Government v. Thurston
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 precedent-shattering decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health O...
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 [Nuclear Test]
“Arkansas” was the code name for one of thirty-six nuclear tests conducted by the United States in the Pac...
Arkansas Apple Festival
The Arkansas Apple Festival in Lincoln (Washington County), held the first weekend of October, has been a feat...
Arkansas City Executions of 1902
Lawrence Dunlap and David Jobe, both Black men, were hanged at Arkansas City (Desha County) on February 28, 19...
Arkansas Cornbread Festival
The Arkansas Cornbread Festival, an annual celebration of Southern culinary heritage, was inaugurated in 2011...
Arkansas Educational Television Commission v. Forbes
In 1992, when the Arkansas Educational Television Commission (AETC) sponsored a debate for candidates in the T...
Arkansas Folk Festival
The annual Arkansas Folk Festival takes place on the third weekend in April in Mountain View (Stone County). H...
Arkansas Goat Festival
The first Arkansas Goat Festival was held in Perryville (Perry County) on the first weekend in October in 2016...
Arkansas Heritage Month
Arkansas Heritage Month is a program of the Division of Arkansas Heritage (a division of the Arkansas Departme...
Battle of Arkansas Post
aka: Battle of Fort Hindman
aka: Battle of Post of Arkansas
The Battle of Arkansas Post, also known as the Battle of Fort Hindm...
Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal
The Arkansas prison blood scandal resulted from the state’s selling plasma extracted from prisoners at the C...
Arkansas Rice Festival
The Arkansas Rice Festival, held during the second weekend of October in Weiner (Poinsett County), was founded...