1968 - 2022

Divergent Prosperity and the Arc of Reform
Abba House
Abba House was established by the Catholic Diocese of Little Rock in 1981 to offer a home to pregnant women an...
Annie Mable McDaniel Abrams (1931–)
Annie Mable McDaniel Abrams is a retired educator and a political, social, civic, and community activist in Li...
Accomplices to the Crime
Accomplices to the Crime is penologist Thomas O. Murton’s 1969 nonfiction account of his efforts to reform t...
Act 1220 of 2003
aka: Childhood Obesity Act
Act 1220 of 2003, which launched comprehensive efforts to curb chil...
Act 250 of 2021
aka: Stand-Your-Ground Law
On March 3, 2021, Governor Asa Hutchinson signed into law Act ...
Act 346 of 2021
Act 346 of 2021, titled “An Act to Prohibit the Performance of a Pelvic Examination on an Unconscious or Ane...
Act 38 of 1971
Act 38 of 1971, which reorganized sixty state government agencies into thirteen cabinet-level departments, was...
Act 626 of 2021
aka: Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act
aka: HB 1570
Act 626 of 2021 was the first ever bill passed in the United State...
Act 710 of 2017
aka: Anti-BDS Law
Act 710 of 2017 is a law intended “to prohibit public entitie...
Act 76 of 1983
aka: Teacher Testing Law
Act 76 of 1983 was a law passed by the Arkansas General Assembly ma...
Act 910 of 2019
aka: Transformation and Efficiencies Act of 2019
Act 910 of 2019 was a piece of signature legislation for Governor A...
Act 911 of 1989
aka: Arkansas Conditional Release Program
Act 911 of 1989 pertains to the evaluation, commitment, and conditi...
Act 975 of 2015
aka: Religious Freedom Restoration Act
The Arkansas Religious Freedom Restoration Act (SB975 of the 2015 r...
Acxiom
The consumer data marketing company Acxiom began in Conway (Faulkner County) in the late 1960s as Demographics...
Elizabeth Lucille (Betty Lu) Hunter Sorensen Adams (1926–)
Elizabeth Lucille (Betty Lu) Hunter Sorensen Adams was a pioneer occupational therapist at Arkansas Children...
Joey Lauren Adams (1968–)
Joey Lauren Adams, a North Little Rock (Pulaski County) native, is an actress, writer, and director. Adams has...
Richard B. Adkisson (1932–2011)
Richard B. Adkisson was a prominent figure in the Arkansas legal community in the latter part of the twentieth...
African American Perspectives Northeast Arkansas
The quarterly African American Perspectives Northeast Arkansas magazine was established in Jonesboro (Craighea...
Sarah Edith Sonneman Agee (1946–)
Sarah Agee of Prairie Grove (Washington County) served as a state representative in the Eighty-second, E...
AIDS
By 2007, a cumulative 4,119 Arkansans had been diagnosed with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the d...
Tony Alamo (1934–2017)
aka: Tony Alamo Christian Ministries
Tony Alamo was a well-known evangelist who, after a radical convers...
Albert Krantz v. City of Fort Smith
aka: Krantz v. City of Fort Smith
Albert Krantz v. City of Fort Smith was a 1998 decision by the Eigh...
Edwin Boyd Alderson Jr. (1940–2017)
Edwin Alderson Jr. became a prominent lawyer, jurist, and businessman in Arkansas in the late twentieth centur...
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...
William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. (1934–)
William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. represented the state of Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives fro...
Boyce Alford (1923–2002)
Boyce Alford was a well-respected optometrist who also had a long career in public service. Active at both the...
All the Young Men
All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South is a memoir by Ruth Coker B...
Charles Wilson Allbright (1929–2015)
Charles Wilson Allbright was one of the best-known and most widely read newspaper columnists in Arkansas. Allb...
Al Allen (1925–2008)
aka: Alvin Lee Allen Jr.
Alvin Lee (Al) Allen Jr. was a painter whose contributions to Arkan...
Gerald Byron Alley (1952–)
Gerald Byron Alley is the founder of Con-Real, LP, which is the leading black-owned construction and real esta...
Richard Allin (1930–2007)
Richard Allin was a journalist and humorist who for thirty years wrote the popular “Our Town” column for t...
Alltel
Alltel Corporation, a wireless communications company, began as a technical service provider to small-town Ark...