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...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1958 commencement address at Arkansas AM&N College inspired hundreds of students and gave the college the...

This 1947 landmark case put an end to the practice of excluding African Americans from juries, which had been ongoing since Reconstruction.

Grover White “Buddy” Turner, Jr. was an Arkansas legislator who influenced state policy from the 1960s through the 1980s.

He was one of the Six Pioneers who helped integrate the University of Arkansas Law School, and key advisor to Daisy Bates.

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.

Dr. Cleon A. Flowers Sr. spent nearly six decades lovingly tending to patients.

Irene Rosenzweig excelled during an era when few women pursued lives outside the domestic sphere.

A silly superstition predating the Civil War once held the town of Pine Bluff hostage.

Raye Jean Montague was an American naval engineer credited with creating the first computer-generated rough draft of a U.S. naval ship.

Massathau D. Jordan, also known as M.D. Jordan was an educator, a leader, and a motivator for thousands of students at Merrill School.

Rev. Reuben Napoleon Chanay, who served as Merrill High’s principal in the 1940s and 1950s, helped move the school closer to its goals.

Two legendary principals at Merrill School, Joseph Carter Corbin and Professor William M. Townsend, inspired generations of students.

Merrill School was one of four high schools that served black students in the Pine Bluff area.

This Frenchman established New Gascony, one of the earliest settlements in what is now Jefferson County.

From the early 1900s to the 1980s, the Grand Masonic Temple was the hub for business and commerce for African Americans in Pine Bluff.

The Colored Industrial Institute was one of the first Catholic-supported schools for African American children in Arkansas.

Robert James Hutton packed a lifetime of activism into less than two decades.

Henry Jackson Lewis was the nation's first African American political cartoonist. He spent a portion of his adult life in Pine Bluff.

Pine Bluff's WOK was the first radio station in Arkansas, thanks to the the efforts of a visionary power plant executive.