1941 - 1967

World War II through the Faubus Era
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A. M. Bohnert Rice Plantation Pump No. 2 Engine
Located on the southeast corner of the junction of U.S. Highway 165 and Post Bayou Lane near Gillett (Arkansas...
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Aaron v. Cooper
aka: Cooper v. Aaron
Aaron v. Cooper, reversed by the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Ci...
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Lucien Abraham (1902–1960)
Lucien Abraham was an Arkansas educator and military officer who rose to the rank of adjutant general of the A...
African-American boy watching white protesters marching in distance
Act 10 of 1958 [Affidavit Law]
A special session of the Arkansas General Assembly passed Act 10 in 1958 as one of sixteen bills designed to b...
Act 115 of 1959 [Anti-NAACP Law]
In 1959, the Arkansas General Assembly passed Act 115 as one of sixteen bills designed to bypass federal deseg...
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Act 401 of 1951
aka: Communist Registration Act
Also called the Communist Registration Act, Act 401 was approved in...
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Julie Adams (1926–2019)
aka: Betty May Adams
Betty May “Julie” Adams was an actress who made more than fifty...
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Homer Martin Adkins (1890–1964)
Governor Homer Martin Adkins stands as a symbol of many Arkansans’ ambivalence about the growing power of th...
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Alexander House
The Alexander House in Little Rock (Pulaski County), built for Julian and Natalie Alexander in 1962, was desig...
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Harold Edward Alexander (1909–1993)
Harold Edward Alexander was a conservationist and stream preservationist who was a proponent of conservation a...
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Henry McMillan Alexander (1905–1969)
Henry McMillan Alexander brought the city manager plan to Arkansas and served as an adviser to many state agen...
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Thomas Dale Alford (1916–2000)
Thomas Dale Alford was a prominent Arkansas ophthalmologist, Episcopalian, radio announcer, civic leader, and ...
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All American Red Heads
A nationally known women’s basketball team, the All American Red Heads formed in 1936 in Cassville, Missouri...
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Dick Allen (1942–2020)
aka: Richard Anthony Allen
Richard Anthony (Dick) Allen—or Richie Allen, as the media called...
Dorathy N. McDonald Allen (1910–1990)
Dorathy N. McDonald Allen was the first woman to serve in the Arkansas Senate, serving from 1964 to 1974 in th...
Luther Allison (1939–1997)
Blues guitarist and singer Luther Allison was born in Arkansas, but like many of his contemporaries in the rur...
Robert Maxfield (Max) Allison (1900–1984)
Robert Maxfield Allison—Max, as he became known, and eventually Uncle Max—was a schoolteacher/coach and a ...
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Aluminum Bowl
On December 22, 1956, War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock (Pulaski County) hosted the Aluminum Bowl football g...
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The Amazing Adventures of My Dog Sheppy
In a 1958 effort to promote economic development and tourism in Stone County, a group of local investors under...
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Ernest Ambort Sr. (1922–1981)
A native of Little Rock (Pulaski County), Ernest Ambort Sr. served in the United States Army Air Corps during ...
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Amendment 33
Amendment 33 was the first of three constitutional amendments ratified by voters in the decade after the begin...
Amendment 44
aka: Interposition Amendment
On November 6, 1956, Arkansans voted to adopt an amendment to the s...
Ernest Guy Amsler (1895–1986)
Ernest Guy Amsler, who was born and educated in Mississippi, moved to southern Arkansas with a law degree afte...
Andrew Lee Anderson (Killing of)
On July 17, 1963, an African American teenager named Andrew Lee Anderson was killed while fleeing from a posse...
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Bruce Roy Anderson (1907–1985)
Bruce Roy Anderson was a prominent Arkansas architect and watercolorist in the mid-twentieth century. Bruce An...
Two white men cowboy costumes by fence post smiling playing accordion harmonica guitar
Lloyd Andrews (1906–1992)
aka: Arkansas Slim
aka: Slim Andrews
Lloyd “Arkansas Slim” Andrews was best known for film roles as ...
Annals of Arkansas
The Annals of Arkansas comprise four volumes of narrative and biographical histories of Arkansas, written by s...
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Richard Nott Antrim (1907–1969)
Richard Nott Antrim was a career U.S. Navy officer who received a Medal of Honor for saving the life of a fell...
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Jack Appleby (1907–1974)
aka: John Tate Appleby
Arkansas native John Tate (Jack) Appleby was a biographer of Englis...
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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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Arkansas Blood Labeling Bill
aka: HB 385
On April 2, 1959, Governor Orval E. Faubus signed HB 385 (Blood Lab...
white wooden post sign reading "Conway Human Development Center" amid trees with chain link fence in background
Arkansas Children's Colony
aka: Conway Human Development Center
Dedicated on October 4, 1959, the Arkansas Children’s Colony was ...