The racist roots of anti-unionism in Arkansas
Motivated by money and white supremacist beliefs, the state farm bureau, chambers of commerce and others lined up with segregationists to enact the ‘right to work’ law.
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A look at old Little Rock via the Hotel Sam Peck
From memoirs by Henryetta Peck and Robert Peck
Winthrop Rockefeller's vision for public education started with Morrilton model school
In 1956, Winthrop Rockefeller made his local school district in Morrilton an offer that it surely could not refuse: unlimited access to his considerable inherited Standard Oil fortune to fund a model school program that would be the envy of the state, the South and the nation.
A wired Hot Springs
Gambling has defined the city since the 1920s.
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Creationists v. Arkansas
Re-Evaluating the 1981 “Monkey Trial.”
A forgotten candidate and the 1962 Arkansas governor’s race
Dave Cox's forgotten campaign and the 1962 election for Arkansas governor. An exclusive excerpt of Ernie Dumas' political memoir.
Sweet Willie Wine took a stand in the Arkansas Delta
With his Walk Against Fear 50 years ago.
The unbearable whiteness of being
What's lost when we consider the history of racial violence from a white perspective.
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