On this date in 1948, Marlon DeWitt Green joined the U.S. Air Force. Green broke the airline industry color barrier in 1963 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Continental Airlines had to comply with Colorado’s anti-discrimination laws and required that the company hire him.
Asbury Mansfield Miller served for many years as an educator in Batesville, Ark. He was born on this day in 1893 in Perla, Ark.
Elijah Eugene Pitts, a football player from Arkansas who starred for the Green Bay Packers in the first Super Bowl, was born on this day in 1938.
Harding University is celebrating its first two African American undergraduate students to earn bachelor’s degrees by naming the administration building after them.
On this date in 1948, Silas Hunt applied for admission to the U of A’s law school. He became the first African American student admitted to the university since Reconstruction.
Influential blues guitarist Albert King first played professionally in and around Osceola, Ark. where he moved with his family in 1931.
The Black History Commission of Arkansas and the Arkansas State Archives are hosting a virtual symposium Feb. 6 focused on African American migration.
Lawmakers have filed education bills ranging from requiring Holocaust education to prohibiting the use of the 1619 Project curriculum.
The Washington County Community Remembrance Project is hosting a virtual workshop for students participating in its racial justice essay contest.
An effort is underway to pass legislation that would promote racial healing initiatives in the state of Arkansas.
An exhibit on display at the Old Statehouse Museum showcases 86 Arkansas African American legislators from the 19th century.
The remains of a 17-year-old Arkansas sailor who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII have been accounted for.
Daisy Gatson Bates will be one of the first African Americans to have a statue in National Statuary Hall when Arkansas replaces its current statues of former political figures.
An exhibit on display at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center through February shares the faces and stories of Black Arkansas veterans.
The Washington County Remembrance Project aims to create a memorial to honor three enslaved men lynched in Washington County in 1856.
