During his career, Julius wrote more than 40 books, taught history college courses for over thirty years, and received some of the most acclaimed awards in both writing and education. Lester, a prolific writer, photographer, activist, and esteemed educator, had both Jewish roots and spent his childhood summers in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

In May of 1958, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the due process protection against coerced confessions in the pivotal court case, Payne vs. Arkansas, which originated from a court case in Pine Bluff.

Pine Bluff native, Dr. George Edmund Haynes  was a pioneering sociologist, social worker, educator, policy expert, and co-founder and...

In 1937, Dr. John Brown Watson, the first president of Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College (now known as the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff), donated 100 acres of land southwest of Pine Bluff for the first public African American state park in the South.

On September 7 1960, with the support of her parents, her community and the NAACP, six year old Deloris Jean York became the first...

Even beyond slavery, fighting for the Union in the American Civil War, and sharecropping on the plantation where he was formerly...

On February 2, 1948, Silas Hunt was admitted to the all-white University of Arkansas Law School, becoming the first black student...

On January 21 1963, Sarah E. Howard became the first African American student to integrate Dollarway High School. She later went on to...

In 1944, an incident on a Missouri Pacific bus in Pine Bluff would preview the actions of Rosa Parks that served as a catalyst for the...

Sue Bailey Thurman, a Pine Bluff native, was an author, historian, and pioneer in civil rights and racial equality who helped shape and...

The Streetcar Boycott of 1903, led by black leaders in Little Rock, boycotted streetcars in Little Rock, Pine Bluff, and Hot Springs...

Explore Pine Bluff has commissioned a six video docuseries unlocking the untold stories of “The Delta Rhythm & Bayous (DRB) Cultural...

Samuel M. Levine was a Jewish politician and lawyer from Pine Bluff who took on the segregationist Legislature in an effort to...

Jesse Chisholm Duke established African American newspapers, the Montgomery Herald and the Pine Bluff Herald, where he published...

William Harold Flowers was a civil rights titan, winning many landmark victories which include ending the practice of excluding African...

Fountain Brown, a Methodist preacher, confessed to selling eight of his slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation, creating a historic...

Othello Cross spent over forty years serving the Pine Bluff community and its legal needs, even representing many Arkansas farmers in a...

In 1910, Judge O. Jones was lynched in Pine Bluff by a silent mob of forty to fifty armed men who disappeared into the night without a...

In 1944, thirteen Black men helped to desegregate the Navy through their commitment to sheer excellence in blazing a trail for future...

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