February 16, 2010

In the early part of the twentieth century, William Montgomery Brown, Right Reverend of the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas, introduced his “Arkansas Plan,” a groundbreaking program designed to reach out to the state’s African-American population. A controversial figure, Brown spent approximately thirteen years in Arkansas before returning to his native Ohio, where he died in 1937.

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