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Founded in 1923 in Louisiana and relocated a year later to Arkansas, Commonwealth College was a resident labour college on a self-sustaining communal farm. Cobb describes how its Debsian socialist leaders dreamed of educating the industrial class to create a utopian cooperative commonwealth. ... Read more

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The general story of education of Japanese Americans imprisoned in camps in this country during World War II has long been known. Little has been written, however, about the individual teachers who agreed to live and work with the students in the camps during the period of incarceration. The story of "Miss Jamison" and the education program in the prison camps at Rohwer and Jerome in Arkansas provides a fresh new view of a Caucasian teacher who came to work with a "strange" group of students, but who was herself educated in the process. Through evidence from Jamison's papers, contemporary documents, historical accounts, interviews with survivors and even from the students' art work Miss Jamison preserved, Ziegler creates a perceptive account of the wartime ordeal of the more than 110,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of them American citizens, from a unique point of view. This book is a moving and significant expansion of our knowledge of the human dimensions of a wartime tragedy, ranking with Thomas James's Exile Within and Karen L. Riley's Schools Behind Barbed Wire in the top tier of books on camp education.As far as the literature pertaining to the Arkansas camps in general, Ziegler's book is in a class by itself. "Provides us with a new and fresh view of an American concentration camp, the view of a teacher who was herself educated by the experience." ... Read more

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Arkansas' Tobacco Settlement Proceeds Act invests the state's share of the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement funds in seven health-related programs. This report evaluates the activities and progress of each of the funded programs in achieving its goals and updates trends in outcome measures developed to monitor effects of the funded programs on smoking and other health-related outcome. ... Read more

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This book traces the history of chemical engineering at the University of Arkansas. ... Read more

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The Supreme Court s Brown rulings in 1954 and 1955 gave rise to a program of massive resistance in the American South that included the resurrection of the doctrine of interposition. The first critical test of interposition occurred in Little Rock, Arkansas, beginning in September 1957 when Governor Faubus called out the National Guard to bar the Little Rock Nine from Central High School, thereby igniting one of the greatest constitutional crises in American history. This work examines the development of the states rights arguments against federal court-ordered desegregation of the schools, and how those arguments came to bear on Faubus, leading him to interpose to prevent the admission of the nine black students into the school. The Supreme Court s September 1958 ruling in the Little Rock case, Cooper v. Aaron, rejected the validity of interposition and left segregationists throughout the South searching for another means to avoid compliance with Brown. ... Read more

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With the admittance in 1948 of Silas Hunt to the University of Arkansas Law School, the university became the first southern public institution of higher education to officially desegregate without being required to do so by court order. The process was difficult, but an important first step had been taken. Other students would follow in Silas Hunt's footsteps, and they along with the university would have to grapple with the situation. Remembrances in Black is an oral history that gathers the personal stories of African Americans who worked as faculty and staff and of students who studied at the state's flagship institution.

These stories illustrate the anguish, struggle, and triumph of individuals who had their lives indelibly marked by their experiences at the school. Organized chronologically over sixty years, this book illustrates how people of color navigated both the evolving campus environment and that of the city of Fayetteville in their attempt to fulfill personal aspirations. Their stories demonstrate that the process of desegregation proved painfully slow to those who chose to challenge the forces of exclusion. Also, the remembrances question the extent to which desegregation has been fully realized.

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"While the chief claim of Educating the Masses is to venerate the legacy of several generations of dedicated black educators, the last three chapters of the book set out a poignant reminder, a chilling warning, and a continuing challenge for all citizens of Arkansas. . . . The challenge, of course, is to continue to follow the example of the black educators celebrated in this volume in working for an educational system that will provide both quality and opportunity to all young Arkansans."--Arkansas Historical Quarterly

"Professors Smith and Joshua have rendered a valuable service with their comprehensive history."--David Levering Lewis, author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 ... Read more