April 2, 1868

The Arkansas General Assembly ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, which bestowed American citizenship upon African Americans. In response to this and other political developments, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) soon surfaced in Arkansas and began terrorizing the state’s freedmen and their supporters, as it had in other Southern states.

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