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The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies
From the earliest years of European settlement in North America, whites enslaved and oppressed black people. Although the Civil War finally brought about the abolition...
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Glossary Term – Event
Secession of Arkansas
Arkansas became the fourth state to secede from the Union.
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Battle of Pea Ridge
The Battle of Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern), Arkansas, ended in Union victory. Outnumbered Union troops forced Confederates into a rout, assuring Union control of the Missouri River.
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Race riot in Elaine, Arkansas
In Elaine, Arkansas, white mobs searched out and murdered African Americans after a conflict in which a white security guard was killed. An unknown number, possibly ranging into the hundreds, of African Americans were slaughtered and five whites killed in the violence. US troops were sent in to put down the conflict, though evidence later suggested that troops actually participated in the murders.
Glossary Term – Event
Moore v. Dempsey
In Moore v. Dempsey, the Supreme Court ruled that twelve African Americans in Arkansas had been unfairly tried and convicted of murder based on a “wave of public passion.” The case was returned to the Arkansas court, which eventually freed the defendants.
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Brown v. Board reaffirmed
In Cooper v. Aaron, the Supreme Court ruled that the governor and legislature of Arkansas were bound by the court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling. The case affirmed the Supreme Court’s rulings and interpretation of the US Constitution as the “supreme law of the land.”
Glossary Term – Organization
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were nine African American students—Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo Beals—who integrated the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957 after the Supreme Court declared racial segregation of public schools unconstitutional.
Glossary Term – Person
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton (1946– ) was the forty-second president of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. Clinton was born and raised in Arkansas. He attended Georgetown University and earned a law degree from Yale, where he met his wife, Hillary Rodham. In 1978 he was elected governor of Arkansas after serving as the state’s attorney general. He was governor until 1981 and then again from 1983 to 1992. In 1992, Clinton was chosen as the Democratic nominee for president. With Al Gore as his running mate, Clinton defeated incumbent Republican...
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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton (1947– ) is the US secretary of state and a former First Lady and US senator. Hillary Rodham grew up in suburban Illinois and attended Wellesley before earning a law degree at Yale. There she met Bill Clinton, whom she married in 1975. While Bill served as governor of Arkansas, Hillary ran a successful law practice and worked on issues affecting children and the disadvantaged. After Bill’s election to the presidency in 1992, the Clintons set out to reform health care. Bill appointed Hillary head of the Task Force on National...
