Race:

African American

112th United States Colored Infantry (US)
aka: Fifth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
The 112th United States Colored Infantry was a United States Colore...
113th United States Colored Infantry (US)
aka: Sixth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
The 113th United States Colored Infantry, part of the United States...
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...
Benjamin Frank Adair (1852–1902)
Benjamin Frank Adair, born a slave in Phillips County, established a legal practice in central Arkansas in the...
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 Perspectives Northeast Arkansas
The quarterly African American Perspectives Northeast Arkansas magazine was established in Jonesboro (Craighea...
African Americans
African Americans constitute 15.1 percent of Arkansas’s population, according to the 2020 census, and they h...
African Methodist Episcopal Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after white Methodist ...
David Akles (Execution of)
On July 17, 1885, an African American man named David Akles (sometimes referred to as Ackles) was hanged in He...
John Hanks Alexander (1864–1894)
John Hanks Alexander was the second African American graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Po...
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...
Dick Allen (1942–2020)
aka: Richard Anthony Allen
Richard Anthony “Dick” Allen—or “Richie” Allen, as the me...
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...
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...
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...
Charles Anderson (Execution of)
Charles Anderson, a twenty-one-year-old Black man, was hanged at Little Rock (Pulaski County) on July 26, 1901...
Clint Anderson (Execution of)
Clint Anderson was an African American man hanged in Little Rock (Pulaski County) on August 30, 1878, for the ...
Daisy Anderson (1900?-1998)
Educator, author, and lecturer Daisy Graham Anderson is best known for being one of the last surviving widows ...
James Anderson (Lynching of)
On December 5, 1880 (one source gives the date as December 4), an African American man named James Anderson wa...
Pernella Anderson (1903–1980)
Pernella Mae Center Anderson of El Dorado (Union County) was one of Arkansas’s two African-American intervie...
William Anderson (Lynching of)
On July 8, 1906, an African American named William Anderson was hanged from a telephone pole just south of Til...
Maya Angelou (1928–2014)
aka: Marguerite Annie Johnson
Maya Angelou was an internationally renowned bestselling author, po...
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...
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...
Argenta Race Riot of 1906
aka: Lynching of Homer G. Blackman
Ignited by the slayings of two African American men in separate inc...
Arkadelphia Baptist Academy
The Arkadelphia Baptist Academy in Arkadelphia (Clark County) was one of many schools founded across the South...
Arkadelphia Executions of 1889
Three African American men—Dan Jones, Anderson Mitchell, and Willis Green—were hanged on March 15, 1889, i...