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Anderson, Karen. Little Rock: Race and Resistance at Central High School (2013) Baer, Frances Lisa. Resistance to Public School Desegregation: Little Rock, Arkansas, and Beyond (2008) 328 pp. ISBN 978-1-59332-260-1; Beals, Melba Pattillo. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High. (ISBN 0-671 ...
Anderson spent 1843 on frontier duty in the American West, serving first at Little Rock, Arkansas, and then on garrison duty at Forts Gibson and Washita, both located in the Indian Territory. His regiment escorted the U.S. Indian Agent to Red River in 1843 and then returned to Fort Washita, remaining there until 1844. Anderson was promoted to ...
Ronald Gene Simmons Sr. (July 15, 1940 – June 25, 1990) was an American mass murderer who killed 16 people over a week-long period in Arkansas in 1987 and wounded several others. A retired military serviceman, Simmons murdered fourteen members of his family, including a daughter he had sexually abused and the child he had fathered with her ...
Texas Christian University. Profession. Politician, farmer, businessman. Winthrop Paul "Win" Rockefeller (September 17, 1948 – July 16, 2006) was an American Republican politician and businessman who served as the 17th lieutenant governor of Arkansas from 1996 until his death in 2006. He was a member of the Rockefeller family .
Evan Lindquist (1936–2023), artist, printmaker, Artist Laureate of Arkansas. Nate Powell (born 1978), comic book artist. Effie Anderson Smith (1869–1955), impressionist landscape painter, educator, feminist. Harry Thomason (born 1940), television producer. Edward Washburn (1831–1860), painter of The Arkansas Traveler.
The 6th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, commonly known as the "Sixth Arkansas ", was a line infantry formation of the Confederate States Army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War . Organized in 1861 with volunteers from the southern Arkansas (to include several antebellum militia companies ), the regiment was among the first Arkansas ...
Gloria Cecelia Ray Karlmark (born September 26, 1942) is a member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African-American students who desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. [ 1] One of the three children of Harvey C. and Julia Miller Ray, she was 15 when she attempted to enter Little Rock Central High School where she ...
284,494 Sunday [ 1] ISSN. 1060-4332. Website. arkansasonline .com. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is the newspaper of record in the U.S. state of Arkansas, [ 2] printed in Little Rock with a northwest edition published in Lowell. It is distributed for sale in all 75 of Arkansas' counties.