2. AHPP Seeks to identify, evaluate, register, and preserve Arkansas’s cultural resources, reflected in the built environment.

3. The National Register of Historic Places is the country's official list of historically significant sites worthy of preservation.

4. Something Important Happened There.... Old State House, Little Rock

5. Someone Important Lived There.... Bill Clinton’s Boyhood Home, Hot Springs

6. Archeological Significance... Parkin Archeological State Park

7. Architectural Significance... Thorncrown Chapel Eureka Springs

8. Equal Education Historic Sites & Schools in Arkansas Associated with the African American Education Experience

9. Slavery

11. Arkansas Post: Home of the First Slaves in Arkansas

12. Slaves Picking Cotton

13. Lakeport Plantation Chicot County, Arkansas

14. Courtesy Arkansas History Commission Courtesy Library of Congress

16. Courtesy Old State House Museum An African American family reunites at the Old State House after the Civil War

17. African American members of the Arkansas House of Representatives, 1891 “To deny the Negro these rights, guaranteed him by the constitution of the United States…you will have to deny that which is self-evident, to every reasonable mind, that we are men.”- Senator George Bell 1891

18. Jim Crow Laws Enforced Segregation Courtesy Library of Congress

20. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 “Separate but Equal”

21. African-American Colleges and Universities in Arkansas

22. W.E. O’Bryant Bell Tower, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, 1947

23. Wesley Chapel, Philander Smith College Campus Little Rock, 1927

24. Wesley Chapel Interior

25. Mount Zion Baptist Church Little Rock, 1926

26. Arkansas Baptist College

27. Shorter College, North Little Rock Courtesy of the Arkansas History Commission

28. Primary and Secondary Education

29. Charlotte Stephens Little Rock’s first African American school teacher Taught from 1869-1939

30. Scipio Jones Born into slavery in 1863 1872 S. Cross Street, Little Rock, 1928

31. Julius Rosenwald with Booker T. Washington

32. Rosenwald School, Delight, 1928

33. Rosenwald School Selma, 1928 Before & After Renovation

34. Dunbar High School Little Rock, 1929

35. Sue Cowan (Morris) Williams Courtesy of Arkansas History Commission Scipio Jones

36. After Brown v. Board of Education 1954

37. Old Main at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1872

38. Edith Irby Jones First African- American Graduate of UAMS

39. Charleston, Arkansas: was the first school district to integrate all twelve grades in the South after the Brown v. Board of Education decision

40. Hoxie, Arkansas Successfully integrated schools in July 1955

42. North Little Rock High School, 1928-1930

44. Gerald Persons (left) Harold Smith (middle) Richard Lindsey (right) Three of the NLR 6

45. Central High School Little Rock, 1927

46. “I must state here in all sincerity that it is my opinion, yes, even a conviction, that it will not be possible to restore or maintain order and protect the lives and property of the citizens if forcible integration is carried out tomorrow.” –September 2, 1957 Governor Orval Faubus

47. “Little Rock 9” and Daisy Bates, 1957

49. First Day of School, September 4, 1957

51. Reporter Alex Wilson being attacked outside Central High

53. President Dwight D. Eisenhower “I want to make several things very clear in connection with the disgraceful occurrences today at Central High School in the city of Little Rock. I will use the full power of the United States, using whatever force may be necessary, to prevent any obstruction of the law.”

56. Melba Pattillo

57. Minnijean Brown Trickey

58. Ernest Green graduates from Central High School, May 1958 May 1958

61. Adolphine Fletcher Terry (center) Pike-Fletcher-Terry House Courtesy Butler Center of Arkansas Studies

63. Little Rock Nine Statue Arkansas State Capitol Building

64. www.arkansaspreservation.com