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    Chief Heckaton’s Battle to Remain in Arkansas
    • 5 days ago
    • 4 min

    Chief Heckaton’s Battle to Remain in Arkansas

    In the late 1800s, relentless Quapaw Chief Heckaton, repeatedly petitioned the US government to allow his tribe to retain their Arkansas...
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    Basil Shabazz: The Measure of Greatness
    • May 11
    • 4 min

    Basil Shabazz: The Measure of Greatness

    Basil Shabazz, a Pine Bluff athletic phenom and all-around athlete, has served as a standard for greatness, first as athlete and now as a...
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    The Rich History of Pine Bluff Cotton Seed Oil Companies
    • May 4
    • 3 min

    The Rich History of Pine Bluff Cotton Seed Oil Companies

    Initially thought of as waste from cotton production, in 1890 cotton seeds became a source of financial gain for Pine Bluff cotton...
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    Colonel John M. Gracie & the Italian Immigrants Experiment
    • Apr 27
    • 4 min

    Colonel John M. Gracie & the Italian Immigrants Experiment

    Colonel John M. Gracie, a prominent Arkansas cotton plantation owner intent on ensuring his plantation’s success, imported families from...
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    Martha Beall Mitchell: A Pine Bluff Original
    • Apr 20
    • 3 min

    Martha Beall Mitchell: A Pine Bluff Original

    This article is a reprint from the Explore Pine Bluff Blog due to anticipated interest in the upcoming Starz series Gaslit highlighting...
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    Amanda Trulock: An Unconventional Arkansas Plantation Owner
    • Apr 13
    • 3 min

    Amanda Trulock: An Unconventional Arkansas Plantation Owner

    Amanda Trulock is remembered for being an unconventional Arkansas woman of her time. She held nuanced conflicted views about slavery,...
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    Wild Bill Hickok: A Gunslinging Legend of the Wild West
    • Apr 6
    • 5 min

    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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    Marian Etiole Watson: A Paragon of Entertainment News
    • Mar 30
    • 3 min

    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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    Beth Brickell: Pine Bluff Entertainer Extraordinaire
    • Mar 23
    • 3 min

    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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    Madam M. E. Hockenhull: A Pine Bluff Business Woman Ahead of Her Time
    • Mar 16
    • 3 min

    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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    Rural Revolutionaries: 1918 Refusal by Black Pine Bluff Women to Pick Cotton
    • Mar 9
    • 3 min

    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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    Lillian Rozell Messenger: A Prolific American Poet
    • Mar 2
    • 3 min

    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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    Pine Bluff’s Instrumental Role in Transforming American Civil Rights
    • Feb 23
    • 4 min

    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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    John Horse and the Black Seminoles: The Race to Freedom
    • Feb 16
    • 3 min

    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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    The Power of Student Activism: Pine Bluff Student Sit-Ins (Woolworth’s and McDonald’s)
    • Feb 9
    • 4 min

    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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    Dr. Carter G. Woodson & The Rich History of Black History Month
    • Feb 2
    • 3 min

    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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    J. Mayo “Ink” Williams: Pioneering Blues Record Producer from Pine Bluff
    • Jan 26
    • 4 min

    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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    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & AM&N College: A Historic Stop on His Civil Rights Journey
    • Jan 19
    • 4 min

    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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    Wilkerson v. the State of Arkansas
    • Aug 25, 2021
    • 3 min

    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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    Getting to Know G.W. "Buddy" Turner, Jr.
    • Aug 18, 2021
    • 3 min

    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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