AHPP Seeks to identify, evaluate, register, and preserve Arkansas’s cultural resources, reflected in the built environment.

The National Register of Historic Places is the country's official list of historically significant sites worthy of preservation.

Something Important Happened There.... Old State House, Little Rock

Someone Important Lived There.... Bill Clinton’s Boyhood Home, Hot Springs

Archeological Significance... Parkin Archeological State Park

Architectural Significance... Thorncrown Chapel Eureka Springs

Equal Education Historic Sites & Schools in Arkansas Associated with the African American Education Experience

Slavery

Arkansas Post: Home of the First Slaves in Arkansas

Slaves Picking Cotton

Lakeport Plantation Chicot County, Arkansas

Courtesy Arkansas History Commission Courtesy Library of Congress

Courtesy Old State House Museum An African American family reunites at the Old State House after the Civil War

African American members of the Arkansas House of Representatives, 1891 “To deny the Negro these rights, guaranteed him by the constitution of the United States…you will have to deny that which is self-evident, to every reasonable mind, that we are men.”- Senator George Bell 1891

Jim Crow Laws Enforced Segregation Courtesy Library of Congress

Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 “Separate but Equal”

African-American Colleges and Universities in Arkansas

W.E. O’Bryant Bell Tower, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, 1947

Wesley Chapel, Philander Smith College Campus Little Rock, 1927

Wesley Chapel Interior

Mount Zion Baptist Church Little Rock, 1926

Arkansas Baptist College

Shorter College, North Little Rock Courtesy of the Arkansas History Commission

Primary and Secondary Education

Charlotte Stephens Little Rock’s first African American school teacher Taught from

Scipio Jones Born into slavery in S. Cross Street, Little Rock, 1928

Julius Rosenwald with Booker T. Washington

Rosenwald School, Delight, 1928

Rosenwald School Selma, 1928 Before & After Renovation

Dunbar High School Little Rock, 1929

Sue Cowan (Morris) Williams Courtesy of Arkansas History Commission Scipio Jones

After Brown v. Board of Education 1954

Old Main at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1872

Edith Irby Jones First African- American Graduate of UAMS

Charleston, Arkansas: was the first school district to integrate all twelve grades in the South after the Brown v. Board of Education decision

Hoxie, Arkansas Successfully integrated schools in July 1955

North Little Rock High School,

Gerald Persons (left) Harold Smith (middle) Richard Lindsey (right) Three of the NLR 6

Central High School Little Rock, 1927

“I must state here in all sincerity that it is my opinion, yes, even a conviction, that it will not be possible to restore or maintain order and protect the lives and property of the citizens if forcible integration is carried out tomorrow.” –September 2, 1957 Governor Orval Faubus

“Little Rock 9” and Daisy Bates, 1957

First Day of School, September 4, 1957

Reporter Alex Wilson being attacked outside Central High

President Dwight D. Eisenhower “I want to make several things very clear in connection with the disgraceful occurrences today at Central High School in the city of Little Rock. I will use the full power of the United States, using whatever force may be necessary, to prevent any obstruction of the law.”

Melba Pattillo

Minnijean Brown Trickey

Ernest Green graduates from Central High School, May 1958 May 1958

Adolphine Fletcher Terry (center) Pike-Fletcher-Terry House Courtesy Butler Center of Arkansas Studies

Little Rock Nine Statue Arkansas State Capitol Building