Little Rock, Arkansas

following paper is a community assessment of Bono Arkansas. Bono is located in Northeast Arkansas along Highway 63 bypass within Craighead County and has an area of 1.4 square miles. The town was founded in the late 1800’s by Alfred Bonner. The name Bono was actually chosen by a contest after the US postal service refused to issue a postal service permit with the original name of Bonnerville, as it was easily confused with Booneville (The encyclopedia of Arkansas history and culture, 2012).…

I believe it takes a village to raise a child. This platform is not only about what I can do but what we can do collaboratively. The Miss Teen Promise Female Scholarship and Preparatory Program is an organization that gives back to communities in Arkansas through volunteerism, mentoring and education. Similar to Miss America Organization, it serves to empower young women to be successful by providing scholarship funds for higher education. Being one of the spokesperson for organization I am able…

Have you ever felt that you tried your best at something? That you gave it your all? Just to have your hopes crushed, leave you disappointed, and feel as if you have failed to do what you set out to accomplish? This very same thing happened to me my freshman year of high school. I was new to the Forrest City School District, but I did not let that discourage me. I decided to try out for the Forrest City High School Cheerleading team, but unfortunately did not make it. I spent countless hours…

George W. Jenkins, the founder of Publix Super Markets, was born September 29, 1907 in Warms Springs, Georgia. George’s family had owned a general store in his town, catering to farmers. In 1920, cotton fields are destroyed due to beetles feeding on the cotton buds. This forced the Jenkins’s to move the family business to Atlanta. George stayed behind to finish high school, and in 1924 he moved to Georgia and enrolled at Georgia Tech. George tried a series of jobs but never sticked with him.…

challenges of diversity and racism. Throughout the years that diversity has begun to deteriorate and the country has at last become closer to one. The Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African American students who became the first to integrate into and all white high school contributed to the deterioration of that diversity. Although the Little Rock Nine encountered a lot of suffering and diversity, they fought through great obstacles to bring the world into unity and helped expand the door of…

The Lost Year is a part of the Little Rock Crisis, but one that is less talked about than others because many don’t see it’s true effects that it had on the Civil Rights Movement. The Lost Year goes hand in hand with the Little Rock 9 in Influence. Both events had the governor of Arkansas involved. Governor Orval Faubus send his own federal troops on the first day of school in 1957 in hopes of preventing integration. However, the Supreme Court had made the decision to have Central High School…

experiences when she and eight others integrated into Central High School. Integrating caused her to to lose all of her past fun activities, because if she was caught out in public, she could be badly injured. One day, Melba was walking home from Little Rock High School, when a stranger asked her if she wanted a ride. If it were not for Marissa, a bully to Melba, she could have been raped. “I couldn’t figure out what he was doing, but I knew that it had to be bad. I scratched and kicked and…

struggles were not only before the Civil Rights Movement, but the road to and from it as well. Most of the colored community has had a harsh journey from being considered property instead of people, to having near equal opportunities. This is why Little Rock Nine and Central High were major to not…

The Little Rock Nine demonstrated this when the group of African American students struggled to integrate into an all white school as the other students harassed them. While in order to be fair, children of all races need to receive the best education possible,…

During this week’s reading, my eye was caught by the actions of then-Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education II (1955). Even as he felt pressures from both the judicial and executive branches of government, he refused to comply with the new standards of racial equality. In 1955, the Supreme Court issued a decision on the case that came to be known as Brown v. Board of Education II, ruling that states must immediately end any segregation in their school…