Little Rock Freedom Rider Dies at 79
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… Read more »
50th Anniversary Bus Unveiled
UALR and co-sponsors, the Clinton Foundation and the City of Little Rock, unveiled the Freedom Riders 50th Anniversary Bus on Monday, June 13. The bus features larger-than-life photos of the… Read more »
Event Commemorates Little Rock Freedom Rides
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Freedom Rides, the Institute on Race and Ethnicity and the Department of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock… Read more »
UALR Historian: “More to Arkansas Civil Rights Than 1957″
He started out a working-class kid from the town of Rochdale, north of Manchester, in the United Kingdom, the son of a construction worker. Today, John A. Kirk is a… Read more »
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Follow UALR student Amanda Whitley's research of Arkansas in the 1960's. Read more...Photos
