October 11, 2009

Arkansas’s most well-known white supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), did not appear in the state until April 1868, a few months after African Americans voted in their first elections. Klan fliers appeared on the street corners of Little Rock (Pulaski County) that month, and KKK activity quickly spread throughout the state. This 1872 Harper’s Weekly engraving shows an African-American family being threatened by a Klan member.