Arkansas Moments
Arkansas Moments is a special feature of UA Little Rock's Public Radio that explores the history of the civil rights movement in Arkansas with Dr. John A. Kirk, George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History.
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The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, sent shock waves around the nation and around the world.…
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Starting in 1957, three successive Arkansas General Assemblies passed a series of pro-segregation measures. In 1959, Act 14 made it illegal for a person…
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Starting in 1957, three successive Arkansas General Assemblies passed a series of pro-segregation laws. In 1958, Act 4 empowered the governor to shut down…
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Starting in 1957, three successive Arkansas General Assemblies passed a series of pro-segregation measures. In 1957, Act 83 created a State Sovereignty…
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Sixty years ago, the Freedom Rides placed pressure on local communities and the federal government to implement the court-ordered desegregation of bus…
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Sixty years ago, five Freedom Riders from the St. Louis branch of the Congress of Racial Equality came to Little Rock. They were 30 year-old African…
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Sixty years ago, the Freedom Rides ended segregation in southern bus terminals. The following year, the pro-segregation White Citizens’ Councils began the…
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In 1966, the Democratic nominee for governor was James D. Johnson, the former head of the Arkansas Association of White Citizens’ Councils that had been…
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Winthrop Rockefeller was elected governor of Arkansas in 1966. His election victory was aided by the work of national civil rights organizations in the…
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Sidney Sanders McMath was elected governor of Arkansas in 1948. McMath was part of a regionwide movement led by former veterans in a so-called “G. I.…