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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- May 11, 2022
- 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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- May 4, 2022
- 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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- Apr 26, 2022
- 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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- Apr 19, 2022
- 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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- Apr 12, 2022
- 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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- Apr 5, 2022
- 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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- Mar 29, 2022
- 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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- Mar 22, 2022
- 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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- Mar 15, 2022
- 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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- Mar 9, 2022
- 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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- Mar 2, 2022
- 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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- Feb 23, 2022
- 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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- Feb 16, 2022
- 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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- Feb 9, 2022
- 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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- Feb 2, 2022
- 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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- Jan 26, 2022
- 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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- Jan 19, 2022
- 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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- 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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- 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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