1875 - 1900

Post-Reconstruction through the Gilded Age
Benjamin Frank Adair (1852–1902)
Benjamin Frank Adair, born a slave in Phillips County, established a legal practice in central Arkansas in the...
Simon Adler (1832–1904)
Simon Adler, born in Bavaria in 1832 (according to his tombstone), was one of the first Jewish immigrants to s...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Arkansas Sections of)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), best known by his pen na...
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...
Agricultural Wheel
The Agricultural Wheel was a state farmers’ union, founded in the Arkansas Delta, which expanded into ten ot...
David Akles (Execution of)
On July 17, 1885, an African American man named David Akles (sometimes referred to as Ackles) was hanged in He...
Albert Pike Memorial Temple
The Albert Pike Memorial Temple is located at 700–724 Scott Street in Little Rock (Pulaski County). On Nove...
John Hanks Alexander (1864–1894)
John Hanks Alexander was the second African American graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Po...
Henry Allen (Lynching of)
Henry Allen was lynched in Jacksonport (Jackson County) on September 10, 1881, three days after he stabbed a m...
Fred Allsopp (1867–1946)
Frederick William Allsopp was a newspaperman, book collector, and bookstore owner who was an important player ...
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...
Clint Anderson (Execution of)
Clint Anderson was an African American man hanged in Little Rock (Pulaski County) on August 30, 1878, for the ...
Frederick Tanqueray Anderson (1846–1926)
Frederick Tanqueray Anderson was an early twentieth-century Arkansas watercolorist. Categorized as a romantic ...
James Arcene (1862?–1885)
James Arcene, a Cherokee man, was sentenced to death for a crime he committed years before. While aspects of h...
Arkadelphia Executions of 1889
Three African American men—Dan Jones, Anderson Mitchell, and Willis Green—were hanged on March 15, 1889, i...
Arkadelphia Lynching of 1879
aka: Lynching of Daniels Family
In late January 1879, Ben Daniels and two of his sons—who were ac...
Arkansas Christian College
Arkansas Christian College (ACC) was a short-lived junior college established in 1889 in Pinnacle Springs (Fau...
Arkansas Confederate Home
The Arkansas Confederate Home was opened late in 1890 in a small remodeled residence on some sixty acres near ...
Arkansas Female College
Arkansas Female College operated in Little Rock (Pulaski County) from 1874 to 1897, first in what is now the P...
Arkansas Kit; or The River Sprite’s Choice: A Tale of the Crowfoot Country
Arkansas Kit; or, The River Sprite’s Choice: A Tale of the Crowfoot Country by W. J. Hamilton, is a “dime ...
Arkansas Normal College
Arkansas Normal College, located in Jamestown (Independence County), was founded in 1895 as a two-year coeduca...
Arkansas Staats-Zeitung
aka: Staats Zeitung
A German-language newspaper with the moniker Arkansas Staats-Zeitun...
Arkansas State Medical Association (ASMA)
The Arkansas State Medical Association (ASMA), organized in 1870, was Arkansas’s first statewide professiona...
Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)
aka: Arkansas Equal Suffrage Central Committee (AESCC)
aka: State Woman's Suffragist Association
The post–Civil War era saw the beginnings of major social change ...
Arkansaw Traveler [Newspaper]
In 1882, writer Opie Percival Read and his brother-in-law, Philo Dayton Benham, started the Arkansaw Traveler ...
J. M. Armstrong (Execution of)
J. M. Armstrong, convicted in a doctor’s killing that he claimed was in self-defense, was hanged at Perryvil...
William Arterberry (Lynching of)
William Arterberry, an accused arsonist, was shot to death by a mob at Harrison (Boone County) on October 22, ...
Ashley County Lynchings of 1877 and 1884
aka: George Jackson (Lynching of)
aka: Sam Jackson (Lynching of)
Two unrelated African-American men named George Jackson and Sam Jac...
Atkins Race War of 1897
What most newspapers described as the “Atkins Race War” occurred in Lee Township of Pope County in late Ma...
Wash Atkinson (Lynching of)
On December 6, 1877, an African-American man named Wash Atkinson was hanged by a mob in Arkadelphia (Clark Cou...
Joseph Bachman (1853–1928)
Joseph Bachman is widely recognized as Arkansas’s leading developer of grape varieties. During his career, h...
Back-to-Africa Movement
The Back-to-Africa Movement mobilized thousands of African-American Arkansans who wished to leave the state fo...