Events for October 3, 2023 - Now
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Evenings with History
UA Little Rock Downtown AROctober 3, 2023 – Marta Cieslak (UA Little Rock Downtown) “I Give This Mural Back to the Working Class of the Entire South”: Joe Jones, Commonwealth College, and a History of Leftist Traditions in the South In 1935, Joe Jones painted a mural on the walls of the dining hall of Commonwealth College in Mena, […]
Evenings with History
Historic Arkansas Museum 200 E. Third Street, Little Rock, AR, United StatesNovember 7, 2023 – Andrew Amstutz A Conversation with Ruth Coker Burks, the ‘Arkansas Cemetery Angel’: AIDS Activism & New Archives in Arkansas This Evenings with History will address the history of the AIDS epidemic in Arkansas through a conversation between the ‘Arkansas Cemetery Angel,’ Ruth Coker Burks, and Dr. Andrew Amstutz. Ruth Coker Burks […]
Evenings with History: Judge Henry J. Lemley and the Meaning of Little Rock Desegregation
Historic Arkansas Museum 200 E. Third Street, Little Rock, AR, United StatesIn February 1958, the Little Rock School Board, under pressure from local businessmen and some of the city’s ruling elite, decided to retreat from their promise to integrate Little Rock schools by filing a lawsuit to ask the federal court to stop integration until 1961. They argued that the violence of 1957 outside and inside […]