Arkansas Baptist College

Little Rock, AR — Private HBCU, est. 1884; one of the oldest HBCUs in Arkansas, founded under the auspices of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention; located in Little Rock; one of the historically significant Black colleges established in the Reconstruction era to provide educational access to freed enslaved people and their descendants; its founding in 1884 came less than two decades after the end of the Civil War, making it one of the earliest efforts to establish Black higher education in Arkansas; strong programs in theology, business, and social sciences; an important institutional symbol of the aspiration of Arkansas's Black community for educational equality and opportunity in the long decades since the Civil War