History Minute: Lily Peter was Arkansas’s poet laureate and philanthropist
Lily Peter’s correspondence with teachers and authors were housed at Ouachita Baptist University
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History Minute: Clarence Bell, the Father of Community Colleges in Arkansas
Clarence Elmo Bell was born in Camden in 1912. He graduated from Camden High School in 1930 and enrolled at Ouachita Baptist College in Arkadelphia.
History Minutes: A forgotten disease, measles resurfaces in Texas
Measles, a disease that once killed millions, is now roaring back with a new outbreak
History Minute: Lithium a hidden treasure beneath Arkansas soil
A large amount of the light metal deep in the earth promises to start an important new era for South Arkansas
History Minute: Arkansan was the musical backdrop of famed Tom and Jerry cartoon
Since Tom and Jerry almost never spoke, most of the stories relied on Bradley’s music to set up and underline the different jokes, playful tensions, and transitions from one scene to the next
History Minute: Calvin C. Bliss, Arkansas’s first lieutenant governor
Calvin C. Bliss was one of the thousands of Arkansans caught in the chaos of the Civil War and Reconstruction
History Minute: Ottaway W. Gurley and the rise and fall of Black Wall Street
The son of slaves, Ottaway Gurley would become a multi-millionaire and one of the richest African-Americans in the country. He would also helped create the prosperous Greenwood District in Tulsa, known as “Black Wall Street”