Butler Center For Arkansas Studies: 3 books
Arkansas Women and the Right to Vote
The Little Rock Campaigns: 1868-1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Women from all over Arkansas—left out of the civil rights granted by the post–Civil War Reconstruction Amendments—took part in a long struggle to gain the primary civil right of American citizens: voting. The state’s capital city of Little Rock served as the focal point not only for suffrage...
From Azaleas to Zydeco
My 4,600-Mile Journey through the South
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Inspired by a 1937 map and travelogue of a newspaperman’s tour, author Mark W. Nichols embarked on his own long journey into the unique cities of the South. En route he met beekeepers, cheese makers, crawfish “bawlers,” duck callers, and a licensed alligator hunter, as well as entrepreneurs...
by Marvin Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Rock and roll pioneer and Newport native Sonny Burgess is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. In this book full of personal interviews and remembrances, Burgess and his band tell of their original recordings for Sun Records in the 1950s; their shows with greats such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash,...