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AHPP Seeks to identify, evaluate, register, and preserve Arkansas’s cultural resources, reflected in the built environment.
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The National Register of Historic Places is the country's official list of historically significant sites worthy of preservation.
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Something Important Happened There.... Old State House, Little Rock
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Someone Important Lived There.... Bill Clinton’s Boyhood Home, Hot Springs
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Archeological Significance... Parkin Archeological State Park
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Architectural Significance... Thorncrown Chapel Eureka Springs
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Equal Education Historic Sites & Schools in Arkansas Associated with the African American Education Experience
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Slavery
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Arkansas Post: Home of the First Slaves in Arkansas
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Slaves Picking Cotton
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Lakeport Plantation Chicot County, Arkansas
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Courtesy Arkansas History Commission Courtesy Library of Congress
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Courtesy Old State House Museum An African American family reunites at the Old State House after the Civil War
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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
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Jim Crow Laws Enforced Segregation Courtesy Library of Congress
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 “Separate but Equal”
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African-American Colleges and Universities in Arkansas
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W.E. O’Bryant Bell Tower, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, 1947
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Wesley Chapel, Philander Smith College Campus Little Rock, 1927
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Wesley Chapel Interior
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Mount Zion Baptist Church Little Rock, 1926
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Arkansas Baptist College
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Shorter College, North Little Rock Courtesy of the Arkansas History Commission
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Primary and Secondary Education
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Charlotte Stephens Little Rock’s first African American school teacher Taught from 1869-1939
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Scipio Jones Born into slavery in 1863 1872 S. Cross Street, Little Rock, 1928
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Julius Rosenwald with Booker T. Washington
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Rosenwald School, Delight, 1928
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Rosenwald School Selma, 1928 Before & After Renovation
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Dunbar High School Little Rock, 1929
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Sue Cowan (Morris) Williams Courtesy of Arkansas History Commission Scipio Jones
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After Brown v. Board of Education 1954
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Old Main at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1872
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Edith Irby Jones First African- American Graduate of UAMS
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Charleston, Arkansas: was the first school district to integrate all twelve grades in the South after the Brown v. Board of Education decision
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Hoxie, Arkansas Successfully integrated schools in July 1955
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North Little Rock High School, 1928-1930
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Gerald Persons (left) Harold Smith (middle) Richard Lindsey (right) Three of the NLR 6
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Central High School Little Rock, 1927
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“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
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“Little Rock 9” and Daisy Bates, 1957
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First Day of School, September 4, 1957
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Reporter Alex Wilson being attacked outside Central High
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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.”
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Melba Pattillo
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Minnijean Brown Trickey
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Ernest Green graduates from Central High School, May 1958 May 1958
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Adolphine Fletcher Terry (center) Pike-Fletcher-Terry House Courtesy Butler Center of Arkansas Studies
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Little Rock Nine Statue Arkansas State Capitol Building
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