Southern Arkansas University
Author: James F. Willis
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2009-10-28
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1462808581
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Remembrances in Black
Author: Charles F. Robinson II
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1610753429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the admittance in 1948 of Silas Hunt to the University of Arkansas Law School, the university became the first southern public institution of higher education to officially desegregate without being required to do so by court order. The process was difficult, but an important first step had been taken. Other students would follow in Silas Hunt's footsteps, and they along with the university would have to grapple with the situation. Remembrances in Black is an oral history that gathers the personal stories of African Americans who worked as faculty and staff and of students who studied at the state's flagship institution. These stories illustrate the anguish, struggle, and triumph of individuals who had their lives indelibly marked by their experiences at the school. Organized chronologically over sixty years, this book illustrates how people of color navigated both the evolving campus environment and that of the city of Fayetteville in their attempt to fulfill personal aspirations. Their stories demonstrate that the process of desegregation proved painfully slow to those who chose to challenge the forces of exclusion. Also, the remembrances question the extent to which desegregation has been fully realized.
A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas
Author: William Monks
Publisher:
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13:
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Author: Brock Thompson
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1557289433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a study of gay and lesbian life in Arkansas in the twentieth century, a deft weaving together of Arkansas history, dozens of oral histories, and Brock Thompson's own story.
Southern Fried
Author: Rex Nelson
Publisher: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781935106982
DOWNLOAD EBOOK-For decades, journalist Rex Nelson has been traveling Arkansas. In this collection of columns from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette he brings to life the personalities, communities, festivals, and tourist attractions that make Arkansas unique---
Arsnick
Author: Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1610754824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJennifer Jensen Wallach is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Texas and the author of Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact: Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow and Richard Wright: From Black Boy to World Citizen.
Bestiary
Author: Donika Kelly
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2016-10-11
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13: 155597953X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDonika Kelly's fierce debut collection, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award and winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize I thought myself lion and serpent. Thought myself body enough for two, for we. Found comfort in never being lonely. What burst from my back, from my bones, what lived along the ridge from crown to crown, from mane to forked tongue beneath the skin. What clamor we made in the birthing. What hiss and rumble at the splitting, at the horns and beard, at the glottal bleat. What bridges our back. What strong neck, what bright eye. What menagerie are we. What we've made of ourselves. --from "Love Poem: Chimera" Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological monsters--half human and half something else. Donika Kelly's Bestiary is a catalogue of creatures--from the whale and ostrich to the pegasus and chimera to the centaur and griffin. Among them too are poems of love, self-discovery, and travel, from "Out West" to "Back East." Lurking in the middle of this powerful and multifaceted collection is a wrenching sequence that wonders just who or what is the real monster inside this life of survival and reflection. Selected and with an introduction by the National Book Award winner Nikky Finney, Bestiary questions what makes us human, what makes us whole.
Down and Dirty Down South
Author: Roger Glasgow
Publisher: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781935106883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReturning from a vacation trip to Mexico, Little Rock attorney Roger Glasgow were stopped at the border crossing. What followed was a long nightmare of political intrigue and subterfuge. Down and Dirty Down South is Glasgow's story of how he attempted to clear his name and also track down the people who had set him up for charges of smuggling illegal drugs into the United States.
The Amphibians and Reptiles of Arkansas (p)
Author:
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published:
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9781610754132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe product of fifteen years of work by top herpetologists, this book is a comprehensive examination of the amphibians and reptiles of Arkansas, featuring over 136 species and subspecies. With over five hundred four-color photos, line drawings, and over one hundred maps, this user-friendly book will become the definitive text on the subject.
The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri
Author: James F. Cherry
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2009-03-01
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1557288976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1981, James F. Cherry embarked on what evolved into a passionate, personal quest to identify and document all the known headpots of Mississippian Indian culture from northeast Arkansas and the bootheel region of southeast Missouri. Produced by two groups the Spanish called the Casqui and Pacaha and dating circa AD 1400–1700, headpots occur, with few exceptions, only in a small region of Arkansas and Missouri. Relatively little is known about these headpots: did they portray kinsmen or enemies, the living or the dead or were they used in ceremonies, in everyday life, or exclusively for the sepulcher? Cherry’s decades of research have culminated in the lavishly illustrated The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri, a fascinating, comprehensive catalog of 138 identified classical style headpots and an invaluable resource for understanding the meaning of these remarkable ceramic vessels.
