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The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff was authorized in 1873 by the Reconstruction-era legislature as the Branch Normal College and opened in 1875 with Joseph Carter Corbin principal. A historically black college, it was nominally part of the "normal" (education) department of Arkansas Industrial University, later the University of Arkansas.
Prior to the Brown v Board of Education decision in 1954, Arkansas law required school districts to maintain separate schools for black and white students. [1]The Dollarway School District initially did not operate high schools, and black students went onwards to Merrill High School of the Pine Bluff School District. [2]
Joseph Carter Corbin, an educator who served as the first principal of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff from 1875-1902. After he was fired in 1902 he became principal of Merrill [6] Chris Mercer, the first African-American deputy state prosecutor in the South, one of the "six pioneers" who integrated the University of Arkansas Law ...
Pine Bluff is the largest city in a three-county MSA as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau including Jefferson, Cleveland, and Lincoln counties. The Pine Bluff MSA population in 2000 was 107,341 people. The Pine Bluff MSA population in 2007 dropped to 101,484. Pine Bluff was the fastest-declining Arkansas MSA from 2000 to 2007.
St. Peter's Catholic School (StPCS) was a Black Catholic school in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in operation from 1889 through 1975 and 1985 through 2012. History [ edit ]
The Education Department looked at how much Arkansas had spent per student at both the flagship University of Arkansas and the historically Black University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff from 1987 to ...
In 1873, with Corbin's urging, the legislature approved the creation of Branch Normal College at Pine Bluff, to be the black arm of the state university and later known as the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. [5] Corbin was dismissed after Democratic takeover of government in the Brooks–Baxter War of 1874.
White America, Inc., was founded by three white supremacist employees of the Cotton Belt Railroad in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in February 1955. [8] [9] [10] They formed the organization to, in the words of one of the co-founders, "perpetuate the white race and to endeavor to have this and future generations free of contamination of Negro blood". [11]