Women Prisoners

African-American women prisoners at the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction near Grady (Lincoln County); 1949.

Group of African-American women in dresses and aprons outside single-story building

Courtesy of the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture

Media

Time Period

World War II through the Faubus Era (1941 - 1967)

Category

Law / Law Enforcement

Type

Group

Race & Ethnicity

African American

Gender

Female

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