Category: Public Education

‘Quicktown’

January 14, 2026

“Quicktown” was a small community of neighborhoods on the southwest side of Fayetteville. It sprang up near the intersection of present-day Leroy Pond Avenue and present-day Prairie Street during the 1880s, partly as a result of establishment of the Pacific & Greater Eastern Railroad and sustained by creation of the Ozark and Cherokee Central Railroad, … More ‘Quicktown’

Civil Obedience

April 30, 2009

Adams, Julianne Lewis, and Thomas A. DeBlack, eds. Civil Obedience: An Oral History of School Desegregation in Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1954–1965. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1994. This book comprises interviews with many of the students who attended Fayetteville High School when it was integrated after U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. … More Civil Obedience