Arkansas Politics: Rivalries and Conflict
This exhibit from the University Libraries Special Collections Department features events and personalities, 1865-present.
The University of Arkansas Special Collections Department presents the exhibit Arkansas Politics: Rivalries and Conflict, 1865 to the Present. Materials include photographs of Arkansas politicians, campaign posters, documents, and other memorabilia. Subjects range from political conflict in the years after the Civil War to gubernatorial contests in the late twentieth century. Also highlighted are struggles by African Americans to fully realize enfranchisement in pre-Civil Rights Arkansas, as well as rivalries among politicians vying to fill the seat of U.S. Senator. The exhibit features not only the activities of Republicans and Democrats, but also the Arkansas's Populist Party in the late nineteenth century and the state's Socialist Party in the early twentieth century.
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