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    Meet C.C. Mercer, Jr.
    • Aug 11, 2021
    • 3 min

    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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    Winona Sammon: The Not-Quite-It Girl
    • Aug 4, 2021
    • 3 min

    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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    Cleon Flowers:  The Godfather of Arkansas Medicine
    • Jul 28, 2021
    • 3 min

    Cleon Flowers: The Godfather of Arkansas Medicine

    Dr. Cleon A. Flowers Sr. spent nearly six decades lovingly tending to patients.
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    Irene Rosenzweig: Scholar and Benefactor
    • Jul 21, 2021
    • 3 min

    Irene Rosenzweig: Scholar and Benefactor

    Irene Rosenzweig excelled during an era when few women pursued lives outside the domestic sphere.
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    Torii Hunter: Baseball All-Star
    • Jul 14, 2021
    • 3 min

    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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    Dexter Harding’s Sawdust Bridge
    • Jul 7, 2021
    • 3 min

    Dexter Harding’s Sawdust Bridge

    A silly superstition predating the Civil War once held the town of Pine Bluff hostage.
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    Raye Jean Montague: A Real-Life Hidden Figure
    • Jun 30, 2021
    • 3 min

    Raye Jean Montague: A Real-Life Hidden Figure

    Raye Jean Montague was an American naval engineer credited with creating the first computer-generated rough draft of a U.S. naval ship.
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    M.D. Jordan: Shaping a Generation
    • Jun 23, 2021
    • 3 min

    M.D. Jordan: Shaping a Generation

    Massathau D. Jordan, also known as M.D. Jordan was an educator, a leader, and a motivator for thousands of students at Merrill School.
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    Remembering Rev. Reuben Napoleon Chanay
    • Jun 16, 2021
    • 2 min

    Remembering Rev. Reuben Napoleon Chanay

    Rev. Reuben Napoleon Chanay, who served as Merrill High’s principal in the 1940s and 1950s, helped move the school closer to its goals.
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    Meet Joseph Carter Corbin & Professor William Townsend
    • Jun 4, 2021
    • 3 min

    Meet Joseph Carter Corbin & Professor William Townsend

    Two legendary principals at Merrill School, Joseph Carter Corbin and Professor William M. Townsend, inspired generations of students.
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    Merrill School: A Look Back
    • Jun 2, 2021
    • 3 min

    Merrill School: A Look Back

    Merrill School was one of four high schools that served black students in the Pine Bluff area.
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    Merci, Antoine Barraque
    • May 26, 2021
    • 3 min

    Merci, Antoine Barraque

    This Frenchman established New Gascony, one of the earliest settlements in what is now Jefferson County.
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    Grand Masonic Temple
    • May 19, 2021
    • 3 min

    Grand Masonic Temple

    From the early 1900s to the 1980s, the Grand Masonic Temple was the hub for business and commerce for African Americans in Pine Bluff.
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    Remembering the Colored Industrial Institute
    • May 12, 2021
    • 3 min

    Remembering the Colored Industrial Institute

    The Colored Industrial Institute was one of the first Catholic-supported schools for African American children in Arkansas.
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    Explore Pine Bluff Like a Tourist
    • May 5, 2021
    • 3 min

    Explore Pine Bluff Like a Tourist

    National Travel and Tourism Week is a great time to see Pine Bluff through the eyes of a visitor.
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    The Life and Music of Art Porter, Sr.
    • Apr 28, 2021
    • 3 min

    The Life and Music of Art Porter, Sr.

    Art Porter, Sr. was a prodigy, virtuoso, and entertainer who performed for Arkansas governors, U.S. presidents, and heads of state.
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    The Short Life of Lil’ Bobby Hutton
    • Apr 21, 2021
    • 3 min

    The Short Life of Lil’ Bobby Hutton

    Robert James Hutton packed a lifetime of activism into less than two decades.
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    Meet Henry Jackson Lewis
    • Apr 14, 2021
    • 3 min

    Meet Henry Jackson Lewis

    Henry Jackson Lewis was the nation's first African American political cartoonist. He spent a portion of his adult life in Pine Bluff.
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    Remembering WOK, Arkansas’ First Radio Station
    • Apr 7, 2021
    • 2 min

    Remembering WOK, Arkansas’ First Radio Station

    Pine Bluff's WOK was the first radio station in Arkansas, thanks to the the efforts of a visionary power plant executive.
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    Remembering The Kidnappers Foil
    • Mar 31, 2021
    • 2 min

    Remembering The Kidnappers Foil

    For more than 40 years, thousands of parents across the country paid money to Melton Barker so their kids could appear in his movies.
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