… dubbed “the most beautiful high school building in America” when it was built in 1927. Thirty years later it became embroiled in a civil rights battle when nine African-American students, now known as the Little Rock Nine, fought to enroll in the (then) all-white Central High.

Johnny Cash, the Man in Black was raised in a little white house on Farm No. 266 in Dyess Colony, a New Deal resettlement community in the Arkansas Delta.

As unlikely as it seems, Arkansas became the unwilling home of two of these War Relocation Centers. The only internment camps south of the Mason-Dixon line and deep into Jim Crow territory, one was built at Rohwer, the other at Jerome.

Climb aboard a yellow (reproduction) electric-trolley for an hour-long tour of Little Rock’s Rivermarket district and North Little Rock’s Argenta district.

New Deal oil on canvas mural commissioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for the Piggott, AR Post Office.