First accession of papers of the Arkansas Governor and Senator especially pertaining to his years in the U.S. Senate.

Records of the state W.P.A. office in Little Rock, Arkansas, comprising correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, memoranda, financial records, contracts, bulletins, procedural and training manuals, scrapbooks and other material pertaining to the the agency in Arkansas, and of its predecessor agency, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.

Most of the papers in this collection comprise correspondence from H.L. Mitchell to East regarding Mitchell's union work after the STFU merged with other labor unions. East co-founded the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in Tyronza, Arkansas, in 1934.

This page guides you through several collection pertaining to the radical labor school, Commonwealth College, operating in Mena, Arkansas in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. The collections include the Clay Fulks papers, the William Gilbert and Henry Wilson, and numerous editions of the newsletters published by the college.

William A. Gilbert (1892-1976) was a socialist activist and community leader who settled in Ink, Arkansas, in 1924. Originally a member of the Newllano cooperative colony in Louisiana, Gilbert joined with a group of secessionists who wished to establish Commonwealth Community near Mena, Arkansas. The papers consist of correspondence, business records, newspapers, pamphlets, tracts, and brochures reflecting his wide range of interests including socialism, mysticism, pacifism, and the American Legion.

Correspondence, photographs, and other preserved papers of the Arkansas populist leader and publicist active in the affairs of the National Agricultural Wheel, the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, and other nineteenth-century agrarian reform organizations and movements.

Search for newspapers in our collection by county, city, decade, or combination.

From the Newspapers Research Guide, this page gives more information on locating Arkansas papers in all formats.

The Southern Tenant Farmer's Union (STFU) was a bi-racial union of sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and small landowners. These documents contain information on the crisis in intellectual labor from the worker's point of view. The deplorable condition of these farmers, the founding and history of the union and its struggle for recognition are covered. The supplement, The Green Rising, features the personal papers and records of four of farm labor's dynamic leaders.

This UC Berkeley project is an ongoing attempt to document New deal projects in every state. Provides a clearinghouse for web information sources.