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Information and images gathered from:

Arkansas Alumni Association

Arkansas Department of Higher Education Information System

Campbell, William S. One Hundred Years of Fayetteville, 1828-1928. Fayetteville, Ark.: Washington County Historical Society, 1977.

Corbin, J.C. Catalogue and Circular of the Branch Normal College. Pine Bluff, Arkansas: Little Rock 1877 -1901

“Daisy Bates, One of the Little Rock Nine.” African American History Month - Biographies.
www.africanamericans.com/DaisyBates.htm.

Departments of Men’s and Women’s Athletics

Dillard, Tom. "Scipio A. Jones," Arkansas Historical Quarterly (Fayetteville, Arkansas Historical Association), 31:213-14.

Diversity Plan for the University of Arkansas Fall 2004-Fall 2005. University of Arkansas Diversity Task Force.

Dougan, Michael B. Arkansas Odyssey : the Saga of Arkansas From Prehistoric Times to Present. Little Rock, Ark.: Rose Co., 1994.

Dougan, Michael B., Tom W. Dillard, and Timothy G. Nutt. Arkansas History: an Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.

Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture at
http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=1102

Goodwin, Bennie W. Silas Hunt: the Growth of a Folk Hero. Ms. 1957.

Graves, John William. Town and Country: Race Relations in an Urban-Rural Context, Arkansas, 1865-1905. Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1990.

Hale, Harrison. University of Arkansas, 1871-1948. Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas Alumni Association, 1948.

Lee, Lurline M. The Origin, Development, and Present Status of Arkansas’ Program of Higher Education for Negroes. Diss. Michigan State Univ. of Agriculture & Applied Science, 1955.

Leflar, Robert A. The First 100 Years: A History of the University of Arkansas. (Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Foundation: 1972), 277.

Morgan, Gordon D., and Izola Preston. The Edge of Campus: a Journal of the Black Experience at the University of Arkansas. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1990.

Morgan, Gordon D. Moving Toward the Center : African Americans at the University of Arkansas, 1990-2000. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000.

“NAACP & the Ada Sipuel Case.” ChickenBones: a Journal for Literary and Artistic African-American Themes. nathanielturner.com/adasipuelcase.htm

Newman, John. Image from “High Water” art exhibit.

Office of Institutional Diversity and Education

Office of Institutional Research www.uark.edu/admin/uadata/

Simpson, Ethel C. Image and Reflection: a Pictorial History of the University of Arkansas. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1990.

Simpson, George E., and J. Milton Yinger. Racial and Cultural Minorities: an Analysis of Prejudice and Discrimination. 4th ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

Srinivasan, Kalpana. “Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher.”
www.law.stanford.edu/library/wlhbp/papers04/FisherAda-hc-Srinivasan04.pdf

University of Arkansas Special Collections archives including images, Razorback yearbooks, and historic newspaper clippings from the Arkansas Traveler, Arkansas Gazette, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and BAD Times

University of Arkansas Multicultural Center


Thank you for your advice and participation—

Molly Boyd, Chauncey Brummer, Andrea Cantrell, Willyerd Collier, Tom Dillard, Harold Horton, Tom Lavoie, Gerald Jordan, Mike Macechko, Mandy Moran, Charles Robinson, Bill Smith, Catherine St. Clair, Kevin Trainor, Megan Webb

Every effort has been made to provide historically accurate information. If you have historical images, memorabilia, information, or stories to contribute to this ongoing history for future publications, please contact the Office of University Relations at urelinfo@uark.edu or (479) 575-5555. To contact the Office of Admissions please call 1-800-377-8632.