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Apr 5, 20225 min read
Wild Bill Hickok: A Gunslinging Legend of the Wild West
Born almost 2 centuries ago, Wild Bill Hickok is still remembered as a great lawman and a feared gunslinger, sometimes with either foot...
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Mar 29, 20223 min read
Marian Etiole Watson: A Paragon of Entertainment News
Marian Etiole Watson has made a name for herself as an award-winning journalist and a household name among New York’s pop culture elite...
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Mar 22, 20223 min read
Beth Brickell: Pine Bluff Entertainer Extraordinaire
Beth Brickell made a huge and lasting impact on the entertainment industry, starring in television shows and movies, and going on to...
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Mar 15, 20223 min read
Madam M. E. Hockenhull: A Pine Bluff Business Woman Ahead of Her Time
This astute Pine Bluff entrepreneur owned a clothing store, beauty parlor, and beauty school all while designing women's attire,...
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Mar 9, 20223 min read
Rural Revolutionaries: 1918 Refusal by Black Pine Bluff Women to Pick Cotton
In 1918, a group of black women banded together against Pine Bluff city officials to increase their meager wages and succeeded against...
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Mar 2, 20223 min read
Lillian Rozell Messenger: A Prolific American Poet
Lillian Rozell Messenger made her mark in American literature throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, just as women began to...
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Feb 23, 20224 min read
Pine Bluff’s Instrumental Role in Transforming American Civil Rights
The city of Pine Bluff and many of its residents played integral parts in the civil rights movement, spanning across disciplines from...
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Feb 16, 20223 min read
John Horse and the Black Seminoles: The Race to Freedom
John Horse courageously led Seminoles and enslaved people to freedom from Florida to Mexico, even stopping in Pine Bluff. Image Credit:...
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Feb 9, 20224 min read
The Power of Student Activism: Pine Bluff Student Sit-Ins (Woolworth’s and McDonald’s)
Some of the most impactful moments in civil rights history were not the results of the planning of great leaders, but rather the...
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Feb 2, 20223 min read
Dr. Carter G. Woodson & The Rich History of Black History Month
Woodson, the child of enslaved people, achieved much his parents couldn’t. He became a celebrated Black historian, was the second African...
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Jan 26, 20224 min read
J. Mayo “Ink” Williams: Pioneering Blues Record Producer from Pine Bluff
J. Mayo “Ink” Williams not only goes down in the annals of history as a great professional athlete, but as a better blues and jazz record...
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Jan 19, 20224 min read
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & AM&N College: A Historic Stop on His Civil Rights Journey
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1958 commencement address at Arkansas AM&N College inspired hundreds of students and gave the college the...
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Aug 25, 20213 min read
Wilkerson v. the State of Arkansas
This 1947 landmark case put an end to the practice of excluding African Americans from juries, which had been ongoing since Reconstruction.
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Aug 18, 20213 min read
Getting to Know G.W. "Buddy" Turner, Jr.
Grover White “Buddy” Turner, Jr. was an Arkansas legislator who influenced state policy from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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Aug 11, 20213 min read
Meet C.C. Mercer, Jr.
He was one of the Six Pioneers who helped integrate the University of Arkansas Law School, and key advisor to Daisy Bates.
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Aug 4, 20213 min read
Winona Sammon: The Not-Quite-It Girl
This Pine Bluff native was supposed to be the next big thing in Hollywood in the 1920s, but things didn't turn out as planned.
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Jul 28, 20213 min read
Cleon Flowers: The Godfather of Arkansas Medicine
Dr. Cleon A. Flowers Sr. spent nearly six decades lovingly tending to patients.
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Jul 21, 20213 min read
Irene Rosenzweig: Scholar and Benefactor
Irene Rosenzweig excelled during an era when few women pursued lives outside the domestic sphere.
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Jul 14, 20213 min read
Torii Hunter: Baseball All-Star
During his nineteen-year career, Pine Bluff native Torii Hunter was considered one of major league baseball’s biggest stars.
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Jul 7, 20213 min read
Dexter Harding’s Sawdust Bridge
A silly superstition predating the Civil War once held the town of Pine Bluff hostage.
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