PRESS COLLECTION:“Riot in Little Rock”(1959)

FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange –“Arkansas Hoosier”(1938)

An “Arkansas Hoosier”born in 1855. Conway,Arkansas. “My father was a Confederate soldier. He give his age a year older than it was MORE

ARKANSAS COLLECTION:“Segregation Protest”(1957)

Arkansas Segregation Protest. Photo dated as Sep 26,1957.

ARKANSAS COLLECTION:“Giant Watermelon”(1970)

Hope Arkansas Giant Watermelon. Postcard. 178 lb. Hope Melon. Pictured are Relynn Fields Miss Watermelon 39-inch Roscoe Stidman Spanky McFarland Pod Rogers. Postcard is MORE

CARL MYDANS:“Loafer’s Wall” (1936)

Loafers’wall,by courthouse,Batesville,Arkansas.

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CARL MYDANS:“Children Chopping Cotton” (1936)

Children chopping cotton. Near Marked Tree,Arkansas. (Ages,left to right:ten years,thirteen years,eight years).

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CIVIL RIGHTS COLLECTION:“This School Closed”(1958)

Central High School in Little Rock,Arkansas,with students (l-r) Lannie Wilson,Darrell Young,Dickie Mahon,and Don Weir hovering around sign proclaiming “This MORE

RUSSELL LEE:“Sign,Pine Bluff,Arkansas.” (1938)

Sign,Pine Bluff,Arkansas. Sept –Oct,1938.

FSA COLLECTION:Ben Shahn – “Negro Home Interior” (1935)

Interior of Negro tenant farmer’s home. Little Rock,Arkansas. October,1935.

FSA COLLECTION:Ben Shahn – “Colored Children” (1935)

Colored children of sharecroppers,Little Rock,Arkansas. Ben Shahn,October,1935.

FSA COLLECTION:Ben Shahn – “Boone County,Arkansas”

Boone County,Arkansas. The family of a Resettlement Administration client in the doorway of their home. Ben Shahn,October,1935.

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FSA COLLECTION:Ben Shahn – “Blind Street Musician” (1935)

Blind street musician,West Memphis,Arkansas. Ben Shahn,October,1935.

West Memphis is the largest city in Crittenden County,Arkansas,United States. The population MORE

ARKANSAS COLLECTION:“Open Season”(1958)

Racist card declaring “open season”and providing home addresses of Daisy Bates,Harry Ashmore and Virgil Blossom.

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ARKANSAS COLLECTION:“Protest Line” (1962)

Civil Rights Protest at Arkansas AM&N College. William Hansen on the protest line at Arkansas AM&N College Civil Rights demonstration,Pine Bluff.

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ARKANSAS COLLECTION:“The Real Criminals are Those…”(1958)

“Educate them together…let them play together…send them to Church together and the result is inevitable.”

Advertisement describing the dangers of racial integration. MORE

ARKANSAS COLLECTION:“Conquer and Breed”(1958)

Anti-integration race rally at Arkansas State Capitol.

Photographer:John T. Bledsoe

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ARKANSAS COLLECTION:“Conquer and Breed”(1958)

Anti-Integration Propaganda Flyer. Flyer demonizes integration and says it will lead to race mixing. 1958

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TRAJAN DRIVE COLLECTION:Arkansas…1953