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The activism against anti-black practices in the state is detailed in chapter 5. [1] The book discusses the significant persons involved in the affair. According to the author, the fire became deadly due to neglect as a result of white supremacist sentiment, citing how Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus deliberately underfunded the facility. [2]
The state park is located 12 miles (19 km) from Camden, Arkansas and includes 84 acres of the battlefield. [101] The Camden Expedition Sites National Historic Landmark, which includes the Poison Spring battleground as well as other sites related to Steele's campaign, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The cotton pickers' strike of 1891 was a labor action of African-American sharecroppers in Lee County, Arkansas in September, 1891. The strike led to open conflict between strikers and plantation owners, racially-motivated violence, and both a sheriff's posse and a lynching party.
DeBlack, Thomas A. With Fire and Sword: Arkansas, 1861–1874. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2003. Dedmondt, Glenn (2009). The Flags of Civil War Arkansas. Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-58980-190-5. Dougan, Michael B. (1976). Confederate Arkansas: The People and Policies of a Frontier State in Wartime.
It was an 3–5 megaton explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908. The explosion over the sparsely populated East Siberian taiga flattened an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km 2 (830 sq mi) of forest, and eyewitness ...
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The building currently is Arkansas headquarters for Regions Bank. 1975 – Central Arkansas Library System headquartered in city. [47] 1976 – Arkansas Repertory Theatre founded. 1979 Webster Hubbell becomes mayor. Arkansas State Library and Arkansas Census State Data Center headquartered in Little Rock. 1980 – Population: 158,461. [28]
A $6.3 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit that claimed smoke from an underground fire at a dumping site in northwest Arkansas harmed nearby residents. An attorney in the case ...