Johnny Cash: Arkansas Icon – Center for Arkansas History and Culture

Cash and Bill Clinton at the Kennedy Center honors

Cash with June Carter, son John Carter, and Governor David Pryor in Rison, Arkansas, March 20, 1976

Cash kneels in the backyard of the house he grew up in Dyess, Arkansas, fall 1968

Drawing of Cash featured in the April 10, 1969 issue of the Cummins prison paper, The Pea Pickers Picayune

Johnny Cash's high school yearbook picture, 1950.

Cash plays in Hot Springs in support of the reelection campaign for Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, October 17, 1968

Cash Family Home in Dyess, Arkansas. June 2014.

Johnny Cash:
Arkansas Icon

About the Exhibit

"Johnny Cash: Arkansas Icon" explores the musician's Arkansas connections over the decades, covering his 1930s childhood in Dyess, Arkansas, through his comeback at the turn of the 21st century. The exhibit places special emphasis on connections between his Arkansas roots and his music from his first performance in Little Rock in 1955 to a 2002 music video.

About CAHC

The UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture is located in the Bobby L. Roberts Library, offers a collection of resources, including significant papers of Arkansas governors Carl Bailey, Winthrop Rockefeller, Dale Bumpers, Frank White, and Jim Guy Tucker. In total, the collections comprise about 10,000 linear feet, 70,000+ images, and approximately 8,000 books.

Mission

The UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture collects, keeps safe, and makes available Arkansas history that connects people to each other and their shared experiences.

Learn More

The collections are available at the Bobby L. Roberts Library of Arkansas History and Art building and online at ARStudies.

401 President Clinton Avenue, Little Rock, Arkansas 72201

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