In this week’s installment of Museum Monday, Mosaic Templars Cultural Center highlights a vintage hair tool from Velvatex College of Beauty Culture collection.
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In this week’s installment of Museum Monday, Mosaic Templars Cultural Center highlights a Green Book entry about an Esso gas station from its collection.
A committee is recommending the removal of the names of a former Senator and governor from the UA Fayetteville campus due to their lack of support for civil rights.
In this week’s installment of Museum Monday, the Museum of Native American History highlights a Hopewell pipe from its collection.
In this week’s installment of Museum Monday, the Museum of Native American History examines a unique headdress from the Blackfeet Nation.
In this week’s installment of Museum Monday, the Museum of Native American History explores imagery depicted on Maya Polychrome Copador Vessels.
In this week’s installment of Museum Monday, we learn about the history of Navajo dress panels that are part of the Museum of Native American History’s collection.
Josie Fernandez was superintendent of Hot Springs National Park from 2004 to 2018 — the first woman to lead the park. Fernandez served a total of 25 years in the National Park Service, with 14 being spent in Hot Springs.
Raye Montague was an internationally registered professional engineer with the U.S. Navy who is credited with the first computer-generated rough draft of a U.S. naval ship.
Debbye Turner Bell, who grew up in Jonesboro, was crowned Miss America 1990. After her reign, she became a veterinarian, has appeared on national television, and is a motivational speaker.
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates was a mentor to the Little Rock Nine, the African American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock in 1957.
Annie Zachary Pike is a farmer and community activist from Phillips County who became the first African American appointee to a state board.
Lottie Lee Holt Shackelford is a prominent African American political leader who became the first female mayor of Little Rock.
Faye Clarke co-founded the Educate the Children Foundation, which was created to support rural and impoverished school districts with donations of educational materials.
Anita Marie Pointer is an original member of the singing group the Pointer Sisters. Pointer’s parents were Arkansas natives and she attended school in Arkansas for a few years during her childhood.
Yuri Kochiyama was incarcerated during World War II at the Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
Arkansas native Kathryn Hall-Trujillo is a public health expert and advocate who focuses on healthcare for African American women.
Eliza Ann Ross Miller was an African American businesswoman and educator, as well as the first woman to build and operate a movie theater in Arkansas.
Arkansas native Dorothy McFadden Hoover was a pioneer in the field of aeronautical mathematics and research.
Arkansas native Sister Rosetta Tharpe was one of gospel music’s first superstars. She has been cited as an influence by several musicians including Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash.
Maria Christina Moroles is the founder of Santuario Arco Iris, an intentional land community in Ponca designed specifically as a “sacred land space” for marginalized women and children of color.
Joycelyn Elders was director of the Arkansas Department of Health and the U.S. surgeon general in President Bill Clinton’s administration.
Photo courtesy of the National Cyclopedia of the Colored Race, Volume One; 1919. Born: August…
Evangeline K. Brown was a longtime educator and activist in the Arkansas Delta who served as a plaintiff in a lawsuit that helped create new majority Black districts for the Arkansas House of Representatives and the Arkansas Senate.
Organizations around the state are celebrating Women’s History Month with a variety of in-person and virtual events throughout March.