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There are four of these in Arkansas. The National Park Service lists these four together with the NHLs in the state, [6] The Arkansas Post National Memorial, the Fort Smith National Historic Site (shared with Oklahoma) and the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site are also NHLs and are listed above. The remaining one is:
The Museum of Black Arkansans and Performing Arts Center is a museum and performing arts venue at 1224 South Louisiana Street in Little Rock, Arkansas.It is located on the former campus of the First Baptist Church of Little Rock, an historic property listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The preservation of African-American cemeteries is an integral part of documenting Black history and heritage. Many lands where enslaved or freed black individuals were buried are threatened by development and neglect though new efforts are underway to protect these historic places. [6] African Burial Ground National Monument, New York, New York
The following are tallies of current listings in Arkansas on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
The Mosaic Templars of America was a black fraternal order founded by John E. Bush and Chester W. Keatts, two former slaves, in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1883. [1] [2] The organization originally provided illness, death, and burial insurance during an era when few basic services were available to black people.
Sites associated with Black history in five Southern states will each receive grants of $50,000 from the Southern Poverty Law The post Black history sites in 5 Southern states to receive grants ...
"The Little Rock crisis and postwar black activism in Arkansas." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 56.3 (1997): 273–293. online; Lovett, Bobby L. "African Americans, Civil War, and Aftermath in Arkansas". Arkansas Historical Quarterly 54.3 (1995): 304–358. in JSTOR; Moneyhon, Carl H. "Black Politics in Arkansas during the Gilded Age, 1876–1900."
The Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review will consider putting two prominent sites in Topeka's Black History — Mount Auburn Cemetery and Second Missionary Baptist Church, 424 N.W. Laurent ...