Known over the years as Twin Oaks, the Colored Cemetery and the African Cemetery, Oaks Cemetery has served Fayetteville’s African American community since shortly after the Civil War.

A young medical student in Little Rock invented a unique, safe tool for capturing snakes.

A nationally known women’s basketball team was based in a small Craighead County town.

A Wabbaseka teacher designed the Arkansas state flag to adorn a U.S. battleship.

An organization of Union Civil War veterans had more than one hundred posts in Arkansas.

President Woodrow Wilson formed a Council of National Defense in 1916 to coordinate industries and resources in case the U.S. entered World War I, but it would be two years before Black Arkansans were included.

Between 1868 and 1893, at least eighty-seven Black men were elected to serve in the Arkansas General Assembly.

Born in West Helena in 1920, William Caesar Warfield had a long singing career on stage and screen and though he left the state at a young age he described himself as “an Arkansas boy from tip to toe.”

Arkansas took in around twenty-three thousand German and Italian prisoners of war during World War II and one of the branch POW camps was established at Lake Catherine State Park.

A University of Arkansas golfer went on to a brilliant career in the PGA and Senior Tours.