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Events that marked literal turning points
- Act 38 of 1971
- Act 626 of 2021
- Alfred Krantz v. City of Fort Smith
- Amendments 19 and 20
- Arkansas Post, Battle of
- Arkansas State Capitol, Desegregation of the
- Back-to-Africa Movement
- Branton v. State
- Charleston Schools. Desegregation of
- Coal Hill Convict Lease Investigation (1888)
- Constitutional Conventions
- Daisy Bates v. City of Little Rock
- Election Law of 1891
- Emancipation
- England Food Riot of 1931
- Flu Epidemic of 1918
- Forrest City Riot of 1889
- Fort Smith Conference (1865)
- Freedom Rides
- GI Revolt
- Great Migration
- Great Southwestern Strike
- Helena, Battle of
- Holt v. Sarver
- Hookworm Eradication
- Hoxie Schools, Desegregation of
- Indian Removal
- Instructional Microcomputer Project for Arkansas Classrooms (IMPAC)
- Lake View School District No. 25 v. Huckabee
- Little Rock Convention of Colored Citizens (1865)
- Louisiana Purchase
- Malaria Control Projects in Southeast Arkansas
- Marquette-Joliet Expedition
- Mississippi County Community College Solar Power Experiment
- Moore v. Dempsey
- Passenger Pigeons
- Poll Tax
- Public Land Surveys
- Secession Convention
- United States v. Waddell et al.
- Women’s Suffrage Movement
Groups and people that operated at turning points
- African American Legislators (Nineteenth Century)
- Agricultural Wheel
- Alexander, John Hanks
- All American Red Heads
- Allen, Dick
- American Missionary Association
- American Independent Party
- American Missionary Association
- Ameringer, Freda Hogan
- Anderson, Broncho Billy
- Arkansas Medical Society
- Arkansas Negro Democratic Association (ANDA)
- Arkansas State Sovereignty Commission
- Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)
- Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching
- Babcock, Bernie
- Bates, Daisy
- Black Union Troops
- Brothers of Freedom
- de Soto, Hernando
- Farm Resettlement Projects
- Freedmen’s Bureau
- French Explorers and Settlers
- Good Government Committee (Little Rock)
- Home Demonstration Clubs
- Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teachers
- Know-Nothing Party
- LaSalle, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La
- Little Rock Nine
- Mountain Federals
- Office of Removal and Subsistence
- Ozark Society
- Plum Bayou Culture
- Six Pioneers
- Stop This Outrageous Purge (STOP)
Cultural works and institutions at turning points
- Accomplices to the Crime
- Angelou, Maya
- Arkansas Writers Project
- Bloody Mama
- Blytheville Comic Book Ban of 1954–1955
- Boy Erased
- Brown, Helen Marie Gurley
- Cone, James Hal
- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
- Devil’s Knot
- Face in the Crowd, A
- Hallelujah
- Lum and Abner
- Minari
- On a Slow Train Through Arkansaw
- Palmer, Bob
- Plum Thicket, The
- Powell, Nathan Lee (Nate)
- Simon, Charlie May
- Summer of My German Soldier
- Thomas, David Yancey
- Walmart Inc.
- Warriors Don’t Cry
- White Lightning
- Woodward, Comer Vann
- Wright, Richard Nathaniel
Places that constitute turning points
- Arkansas Post
- Army-Navy Hospital
- Cane Hill College
- Fort Smith (Sebastian County)
- Hot Springs National Park
- Interstate 630
- Japanese American Relocation Camps
- Little Rock [Geological Formation]
- Mississippi River
- Napoleon (Desha County)
- Petit Jean State Park
- Trinity Hospital
- World War II Ordnance Plants
