culture of arkansas Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/culture-of-arkansas Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:24:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Arkansas cultural contributions http://travelsfinders.com/arkansas-cultural-contributions.html http://travelsfinders.com/arkansas-cultural-contributions.html#respond Thu, 05 May 2016 12:24:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=203649 While Arkansas is commonly defined as a place of black and white, the influx of hundreds of thousands of Mexicans during the 1940s through the 1960s left a permanent mark on race relations in the state. No Mexicans signs represented the first discriminatory policies that white farmers, restaurant owners, and local authorities in Arkansas’s black belt were forced to dismantleseveral years before Brown vs. Board of Education set off the South’s violent and contentious desegregation process. Mexicans arrived in an Arkansas already unsettled by blacks’ increasing power and mobility as a result of World War II. Their presence and the

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