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The African American population of Arkansas would grow in proportion, comprising 110,000 and 25% of the population in 1860 on the eve of the American Civil War. African Americans lived throughout the state, and were primarily made to work on cotton plantations; some were made to work skilled trades. Living conditions were barely adequate for ...
The museums in Arkansas display and preserve the culture of Arkansas for future generations. From fine art to history, Arkansas museums are available throughout the state. The most popular museum in Arkansas is Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, financed by Alice Walton, with 604,000 visitors in 2012, its first year. [42]
The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center has more than 8,000 square feet (740 m 2) of interactive exhibit and education space. A third-floor auditorium provides the opportunity to explore the story of Arkansas's African Americans through public forums, conferences, and performing arts.
The Johnson's, a Black Ozarker family from Franklin County, Missouri, in the northeastern Ozarks. ca 1890's.. Black Ozarkers, [1] who have also been referred to as Ozark Mountain Blacks, [2] are Afro-Americans who are native to or inhabitants of the once isolated Ozarks uplift, a heavily forested and mountainous geo-cultural region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the ...
Mosaic Templars Cultural Center at Ninth Street and Broadway in Little Rock, Arkansas. 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.
A group that integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957 when it was segregated by race has come out to decry Arkansas barring AP African American studies from counting toward credit for ...
Critics of Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ executive decision to end an advanced placement African-American studies course in the state could face challenges in court.
Ethnic - African American African American history, culture and community in Arkansas from 1870 to the present Museum of American History at Cabot High School: Cabot: Lonoke Little Rock Central Area Local history [18] Museum of Native American History: Bentonville Benton The Ozarks Native American Includes tools, weapons, clothing, pottery