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Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914–1965 (University of Arkansas Press, 2023) online. Kirk, John A. "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 ...
Orean Lencola Sullivan (born 1957) is an American news anchor, singer and former beauty queen who has competed in the Miss America pageant. She was the first African-American to be crowned Miss Arkansas. [1] Sullivan was the oldest of five children born to Richard and Macie Sullivan. She attended the University of Central Arkansas where she ...
Arkansas is a 2020 American neo-noir [2] crime thriller film directed by Clark Duke in his directorial debut, from a screenplay he wrote with Andrew Boonkrong. It stars Liam Hemsworth, Clark Duke, Michael Kenneth Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Eden Brolin, Chandler Duke, John Malkovich and Vince Vaughn. It is based on the novel Arkansas by John Brandon.
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Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born October 4, 1941) [1] is an American civil rights activist and one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The integration came as a result of ...
Aunt Caroline Dye died on September 26, 1918, in Newport, Arkansas. [1][4][2] Her gravestone says that she was 108 years old when she died. Her farmland and rental properties amassed her a substantial amount of wealth, especially for a Black woman with no formal education in the South. [2][3] A probated will filed on August 15, 1918, suggests ...
Vanessa Lynn Williams[1] (born March 18, 1963) is an American singer, actress, model, producer, and dancer. She gained recognition as the first Black woman to win the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984. She would later resign her title amid a media controversy surrounding nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine.
Little Rock, Arkansas, Southern United States. Coordinates. 34°44′27″N 92°16′37″W. / 34.74074°N 92.27694°W / 34.74074; -92.27694. Type. African American history museum. Website. www.mosaictemplarscenter.com. The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center is a nationally-accredited, world-class Department of Arkansas Heritage museum and ...