/news-archive/tag/black-history-commission-of-arkansas/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Tue, 06 Nov 2018 21:48:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2018/11/06/native-american-heritage-fair/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 21:48:16 +0000 /news/?p=72570 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock to host Black Indians and Native American heritage fair]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will celebrate Native American Heritage Month with a Black Indians and Native American Heritage Month fair on Saturday, Nov. 10, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the University Plaza Shopping Center parking lot at the corner of Asher and University avenues. 聽聽 Events will feature 鈥淧atriot Nations,鈥� a traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian鈥檚 National Museum of the American Indians, about American Indians鈥� service in the nation鈥檚 wars. Also featured will be short educational talks about the Trail of Tears through Arkansas, slavery and Choctaw and Chickasaw removal, and the Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes. Native American food, arts and crafts, food trucks, tours of the Trail of Tears Park adjacent to the fair site, and exhibits will be available.

Exhibitors include the Butler Center of Arkansas, Arkansas State Archives, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Black History Commission of Arkansas, Sequoyah National Research Center, Indian Center of Arkansas, Inc., Arkansas Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association, Toltec Mounds, Little Rock Racial and Cultural & Diversity Commission, Boy Scouts of America, Youth Challenge, 4H & Extension Services, Women in Agriculture, the Secretary of State office, and others. The fair is sponsored by 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 Sequoyah National Research Center and University District Partnership, Little Rock Racial and Cultural Diversity Commission, Black History Commission of Arkansas, Arkansas National Guard Museum, and Jason Irby Innovation Foundation. Admission is free, and parking is close and free. The speaker schedule is as follows:

• 11鈥�11:15 a.m. Black Indians at Sequoyah National Research Center, Dr. Daniel Littlefield
• 12鈥�12:15 p.m. Slave, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Removal, Carolyn Kent 聽
• 1鈥�1:15 p.m. Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes at the Trail of Tears, Dr. Daniel Littlefield

For more information, email axgwinup@ualr.edu, or call 501-683-7356.]]> /news-archive/2018/01/12/bowen-african-american-legislators-exhibit/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:35:26 +0000 /news/?p=68989 ... Bowen School of Law Library hosts African American legislators exhibit]]> The William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock will host a free exhibit that tells the story of the 85 African Americans who served in the Arkansas General Assembly during the late 19th听肠别苍迟耻谤测.听 鈥淎rkansas African American Legislators, 1868-1893鈥� will be on display until Thursday, Jan. 25, in the Bowen School of Law Library, 1201 McMath Avenue in Little Rock, during regular library hours. After the Civil War, Arkansas adopted a new constitution in 1868. Its provisions included the right to vote and hold public office for black males, and African American lawyers, merchants, ministers, educators, farmers, and other professionals serving in the Arkansas General Assembly. The exhibit includes photographs of 46 of the 85 legislators, a complete listing of the legislators, and a short history of post-Civil War and election law 鈥渞eforms鈥� that effectively ended African Americans being elected to legislative positions until the 1970s. The traveling exhibit was produced by the Arkansas State Archives and Black History Commission of Arkansas. The Black History Commission of Arkansas produces exhibits, hosts seminars, offers free educational material on African American history, and administers the Curtis H. Sykes Memorial Grant Program to fund projects related to African American history in Arkansas. Founded in 1905, the Arkansas State Archives is dedicated to collecting and preserving the documentary history of Arkansas. The Arkansas State Archives is an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage and shares the goal of all eight Department of Arkansas Heritage agencies, that of preserving and enhancing the heritage of the state of Arkansas. For more information, contact Kathryn Fitzhugh at kcfitzhugh@ualr.edu or 501-324-9974. ]]>