Prominent Colored People Gift_for_Sailor Arkansas Little Rock rises from

Arkansas Little Rock rises from the south bank of the Arkansas River

Printed for the Northern Democratic ticket in the year the party split in two

and the careful forgetting of what the war had only just settled

The plate hums with the same Promethean nerve that gave us the Chrysler's spire and the dirigible mast atop the Empire State

Prominent Colored People Gift_for_Sailor Arkansas Little Rock rises fromProminent Colored People a composite portrait gallery of African American leadership assembled in the long decades after Emancipation, when photography and lithography were enlisted in the slow, deliberate work of writing Black achievement into the visible record of the Republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and