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112th United States Colored Infantry (US)
aka: Fifth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
The 112th United States Colored Infantry was a United States Colore...
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113th United States Colored Infantry (US)
aka: Sixth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
The 113th United States Colored Infantry, part of the United States...
African-American woman with short hair smiling in silver dress
Annie Mable McDaniel Abrams (1931–)
Annie Mable McDaniel Abrams is a retired educator and a political, social, civic, and community activist in Li...
Act 151 of 1859
aka: Act to Remove the Free Negroes and Mulattos from the State
aka: Arkansas's Free Negro Expulsion Act of 1859
The Arkansas General Assembly passed a bill in February 1859 that b...
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Benjamin Frank Adair (1852–1902)
Benjamin Frank Adair, born a slave in Phillips County, established a legal practice in central Arkansas in the...
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African American Legislators (Nineteenth Century)
In Arkansas, between 1868 and 1893, at least eighty-seven African American men were elected to and served in t...
African-American girl in dress with head bowed and hands clasped in prayer on magazine cover with text
African American Perspectives Northeast Arkansas
The quarterly African American Perspectives Northeast Arkansas magazine was established in Jonesboro (Craighea...
African-American women in formal dresses with a child sitting in chairs while men in suits stand behind them
African Americans
African Americans constitute 15.1 percent of Arkansas’s population, according to the 2020 census, and they h...
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African Methodist Episcopal Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after white Methodist ...
"Brained with an axe" newspaper clipping
David Akles (Execution of)
On July 17, 1885, an African American man named David Akles (sometimes referred to as Ackles) was hanged in He...
Young African-American man in military uniform
John Hanks Alexander (1864–1894)
John Hanks Alexander was the second African American graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Po...
Close-up portrait photo of an African-American man in suit jacket and dress shirt
Larry Dell Alexander (1953–2021)
Larry Dell Alexander was a visual artist, writer, and Bible teacher best known for his elaborate pen-and-ink d...
African-American man wearing glasses and cap in Philadelphia Phillies uniform with glove
Dick Allen (1942–2020)
aka: Richard Anthony Allen
Richard Anthony (Dick) Allen—or Richie Allen, as the media called...
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Gerald Byron Alley (1952–)
Gerald Byron Alley is the founder of Con-Real, LP, which is the leading black-owned construction and real esta...
Luther Allison (1939–1997)
Blues guitarist and singer Luther Allison was born in Arkansas, but like many of his contemporaries in the rur...
"Dear Colonel" letter in newspaper on August 19, 1849
Alph (Lynching of)
A mob of white residents of Benton County lynched Alph, an enslaved African-American man, on August 20, 1849. ...
Joshua Altheimer (1911–1940)
Joshua Altheimer was one of the Delta’s most prolific blues pianists. Altheimer mastered the emerging boogi...
"Helena. The Murderer of Constable Blount Killed by a Posse" newspaper clipping
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...
"The Law Vindicated" newspaper clipping
Charles Anderson (Execution of)
Charles Anderson, a twenty-one-year-old Black man, was hanged at Little Rock (Pulaski County) on July 26, 1901...
"Outraged Law" newspaper clipping
Clint Anderson (Execution of)
Clint Anderson was an African American man hanged in Little Rock (Pulaski County) on August 30, 1878, for the ...
Old African-American woman smiling in hat and necklace with earrings sitting with brick wall behind her
Daisy Anderson (1900?-1998)
Educator, author, and lecturer Daisy Graham Anderson is best known for being one of the last surviving widows ...
"Short Shrift. A Negro outrages a white lady in Pine Bluff" newspaper clipping
James Anderson (Lynching of)
On December 5, 1880 (one source gives the date as December 4), an African American man named James Anderson wa...
Headlines "Murderer Hanged" and "Marshall Anderson Executed at Malvern"
Marshall Anderson (Execution of)
Marshall Anderson was a Black man hanged at Malvern (Hot Spring County) on April 24, 1896, for killing his bro...
Pernella Anderson (1903–1980)
Pernella Mae Center Anderson of El Dorado (Union County) was one of Arkansas’s two African-American intervie...
"Negro met quick justice" newspaper clipping
William Anderson (Lynching of)
On July 8, 1906, an African American named William Anderson was hanged from a telephone pole just south of Til...
African-American woman in turban and hoop earrings behind orchid
Maya Angelou (1928–2014)
aka: Marguerite Annie Johnson
Maya Angelou was an internationally renowned bestselling author, po...
"Act 320 makes cohabitation between the white and Negro races a felony punishable with not less than one month nor more than one year in the penitentiary" newspaper clipping
Anti-miscegenation Laws
Anti-miscegenation laws were edicts that made it unlawful for African Americans and white people to marry or e...
Appeal of the Arkansas Exiles to Christians throughout the World
The “Appeal of the Arkansas Exiles to Christians throughout the World” was a plea for assistance written b...
African American man in glasses and dress military uniform
Jesse Walter Arbor (1914–2000)
Serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Arkansas native Jesse Walter Arbor became one of the first thirt...
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Argenta Race Riot of 1906
aka: Lynching of Homer G. Blackman
Ignited by the slayings of two African American men in separate inc...
"Negro Baptists Meet" newspaper clipping
Arkadelphia Baptist Academy
The Arkadelphia Baptist Academy in Arkadelphia (Clark County) was one of many schools founded across the South...