Institute on Race and Ethnicity

UALR’s Institute on Race and Ethnicity and Department of History, with support from the Mabel and Santo Formica Endowment, will present the world premiere of “Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock,” a documentary that chronicles the life of the civil rights figure.

Members of the campus community are invited to add a favorite quote, poem, or other thoughts about racial and ethnic justice on a graffiti board on the upper concourse of the Donaghey Student Center Monday, Oct. 31, that will be displayed at an open house for UALR’s new Institute on Race and Ethnicity.

In light of the popularity of the best-selling book and film, “The Help,” UALR’s Institute on Race and Ethnicity and Pyramid Art, Books, and Custom Framing are co-sponsoring a community discussion, “The Help: Black and White Women’s Relationships: Past, Present, and Future,” at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, at Pyramid at 1001 Wright Ave., Suite … ‘The Help’ Fans Discuss Black/White Relations

To mark the launch of UALR’s Institute on Race and Ethnicity, the University History Institute’s “Evenings with History” Lecture Series will present three themed talks this fall focused on the history of the African American freedom struggle in Arkansas. Lecturers will include faculty from the UALR Department of History.

Colleen Youngdahl, a third-year student at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston will be working at UALR’s Institute on Race and Ethnicity this academic year, Director Adjoa Aiyetoro has announced.

The University of Arkansas Press has released a new book co-edited by UALR Donaghey Professor of History and Chair John A. Kirk on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s Arkansas project to integrate businesses, schools, and other public facilities in Arkansas.

Fifty years after the arrest of five Freedom Riders attempting to integrate interstate bus terminal facilities in Little Rock, UALR will host a day-long symposium on the 1960-era civil rights movement in Arkansas.

The Rev. Ben Elton Cox Sr., the veteran Freedom Rider who survived an Anniston, Ala., bus burning to lead four others on a Trailways bus ride to integrate travel facilities in Little Rock, has died – a month before the 50th anniversary of their ride.

The five young people aboard the Trailways bus traveling from St. Louis to New Orleans didn’t expect trouble when they rolled into Little Rock that hot, muggy day 50 years ago on Sunday, July 10.