Arkansas Moments

Fifty years ago this November [2016], Winthrop Rockefeller was elected Arkansas’s first Republican governor in almost a century. To win the election,…

Fifty years ago this November [2016], Winthrop Rockefeller was elected Arkansas’s first Republican governor in almost a century. He strongly believed that…

Fifty years ago this November [2016], Winthrop Rockefeller was elected Arkansas’s first Republican governor in almost a century. In the oil business in…

The first immigrants to Arkansas were the many Native American Indians that occupied the land for thousands of years. They were descendants of people who…

African Americans were not immigrants to Arkansas. The vast majority of African Americans were originally brought to the state against their will as…

From the 1940s through the 1960s, the Bracero Program brought thousands of Mexican workers into the Arkansas delta to address labor shortages. Braceroes…

In 1954, when the United States Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision was handed down, Orval Faubus was running against…

After the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the first four African American legislators were elected to the Arkansas General Assembly in eighty…

The election law of 1891 began African American disfranchisement in Arkansas. Passed with the intention of combating electoral fraud, its measures proved…

More African Americans were elected to the Arkansas General Assembly in the nineteenth century than have been elected in the twentieth and twenty-first…