Encyclopedia of Arkansas Minute
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The Encyclopedia of Arkansas Minute features the history of Arkansas as told through the entries of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas is a program of the Central Arkansas Library System Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.
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A Chicot County native would become a college basketball star and a federal judge.
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A former slave became one of the most famous lawmen in U.S. history.
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For a decade Arkansas required blood donations to be labeled with the donor’s race.
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A Lincoln County family established an agricultural enterprise that found success in a time when independent Black farmers faced daunting obstacles.
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A Hot Spring County community can trace its roots to 1855, when the Brown family emigrated there and placed boxes over the sulfur, iron and copper springs in the area.
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Appalling weather affected both armies in Civil War Arkansas in the summer of 1863.
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A once popular Arkansas novelist is scarcely remembered today.
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Little Rock native became a pioneering Christian broadcaster.
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In 1971, Texas minister James Ellison founded The Covenant, The Sword and The Arm of the Lord, a white supremacist gang.
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