Taking What They Can Carry: Videos and Resources

The Ku Klux Klan in Arkansas

Resources

• Lesson plans
  • Violence, the KKK, and the Struggle for Equality (9-12)
  • C-SPAN Video with additional resources (9-12)
• Other
  • Liberia Settlement
  • Birth of a Nation
  • Robbie Gill Comer
  • Arkansas State Flag

Kit Karson and Band

Resources

• Lesson plans
  • Race Riot Topic Guide
• Other
  • Walnut Ridge Race War of 1912
  • Agricultural Wheel Encyclopedia of Arkansas article
  • Black Rock (city of) Encyclopedia of Arkansas Article

Spatial Segregation in Central Arkansas: A Brief Examination of Dark Hallow, Urban Renewal, and the Construction of I-630

Resources

• Lesson plans
  • The New Deal and Residential Segregation | Interactive Lesson via PBS (9-12)
  • Reading Maps Jr. Lesson Plan: Geography and Migration (K-3)
  • Great Migration (6-8)
• Other
  • Urban Renewal
    • Encyclopedia of Arkansas article
    • Mapping Renewal (includes maps)
  • Metroplan
  • Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)

Forced Migrations: The Expulsion of Indigenous Peoples from Arkansas

Resources

• Lesson plans
  • Native Americans in Arkansas: The Quapaw (1-4)
  • Trail of Tears Curriculum Guide (6-12, Lesson Plans for all subjects)
  • Native American Cultures Across the U.S. (6-8)
• Other
  • EOA on Indian Removal
  • Sequoyah National Research Center
  • Native American Cultures Across the U.S. (6-8)

Exiled: The Story of Arkansas’s Free Black Expulsion of 1860

Resources

• Lesson plans
  • Slavery in Arkansas (5-8)
  • Race Relations in Arkansas: Secession & the Civil War
  • Arkansas State Archives Slavery in Arkansas Topic Guide
• Other
  • EOA Act 151 of 185
  • Governor Elias Conway
  • Benjamin Frank Adair

Bitter Sacrifices: Art and Writing from Arkansas’s WWII Japanese American Incarceration Centers

Resources

• Lesson plans
  • Under one flag: A year at Rohwer (4-12)
  • Japanese Americans and the Rowher Relocation Camp (5-8)
  • Japanese American Internment Camps during WWII (6-12)
• Other
  • Rising Above in Arkansas
  • Rohwer Heritage Site (WWII Japanese-American Internment Museum)
  • Japanese American Relocation Camps (Encyclopedia of Arkansas)
  • Roberts Library Rohwer website

Finding Frank Moore: How Recent Research Changed Our Understanding of the Elaine Massacre

Resources

• Lesson plans
  • The Elaine 12 Butler Centers (5-8)
  • Arkansas State Archives Topic Guide
  • Red Summer: Lesson Plan (9-12)
• Other
  • Smithsonian Magazine Article
  • Elias Ida B Wells “The Arkansas Riot”
  • EOA Article
  • NPR Article (has links to primary sources via archives)

Hate-Based Violence in Arkansas: An Overview

Resources

• Lesson plans
  • Jim Crow Laws (5-8 but can be adapted for 9-12)
  • Walk in My Shoes (5-8 but can be adapted for 9-12)
  • Lynching (9-12)
• Other
  • Act 151 of 1859
  • Elias Nelson Conway
  • Lynching