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 … UALR Hosts World Premiere of ‘Daisy Bates’

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 … Institute Open House to Feature Graffiti Board

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 … ‘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 … Series to Focus on Freedom’s Struggle

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 … Law Students Join New Institute

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 … Book Chronicles Arkansas’s Civil Rights Beyond Central High

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 … Symposium Explores Arkansas’s Civil Rights Past

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 … Leader of LR Freedom Ride Dies

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 … UALR Marks 50th Year of Little Rock Freedom Riders