African Americans – Arkansas Primary Source Sets

Onlookers stand on the steps of a building while 13 members of the 57th United States Colored Infantry, an African American unit in the Civil War, pose in uniform for the photographer. The three men on the left carry a bugle, large drum, and snare drum. Other men hold weapons. The tallest man in the center carries the American flag.

African Americans in the Civil War

Book Backdrop for Step Right Up by Donna Janell Bowman

Children at Play

Book Backdrop for Ron’s Big Mission by Rose Blue

School Desegregation

Tenant Farming and Sharecropping in the Post-Civil War South

Mifflin Gibbs

The Great Depression in Arkansas

American Schools of the Past