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The video consists of Bliss holding a sign reading "Black Lives Matter" in Harrison, Arkansas, a town that has been dubbed "America's Most Racist Town" due to its connections to white pride riots and the headquarters of the white supremacist terrorist hate group the Ku Klux Klan. During the video, multiple white passersby drive by and shout ...
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 ...
Hazel Bryan Massery (born January 31, 1942 [1]) is an American former anti-integration activist who was a student at Little Rock Central High School during the Civil Rights Movement. [2] She was depicted in an iconic photograph taken by photojournalist Will Counts in 1957 showing her shouting at Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine ...
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 ...
Lottie H. Shackelford (born April 30, 1941) [2] is an American politician who in 1987 was the first woman appointed Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas. [1] In 1993, President Bill Clinton [ 3 ] appointed her to the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), [ 4 ] making her the first African-American woman to serve in ...
Black Oak Arkansas (formed 1963), Southern rock hillybilly psycho-boogie band Big Bill Broonzy (1903–1958), blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Shirley Brown (born 1947), soul singer
The firing comes amid renewed scrutiny on how departments respond to officer misconduct after body camera footage was released showing the deadly shooting of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black ...