AR BETWEEN THE WARS INFOGRAPHIC
BETWEEN WORLD WAR 1 AND WORLD WAR 2
POST WAR ARKANSAS
- Many new advances in techknowledgy were changing the lives of most Americans drastically
- Examples of some new advances would be the telephone and the automobile, as well as electricity
- Poeple at this time also had a lot more "free time"
OIL BOOM AND TOWNS
- The first big oil discovery in Arkansas happened close to the southern town of El Dorado in a Union Country
- While Samuel T. Busey had been drilling just west of town oil began to spew out by the gallons all across farm lands and local feilds, because of this, much of the oil had gone to waist
- After this oil strike hit, many people came flooding into the area in hopes to become rich or find work.
- in only a few years, El Dorado was home to 59 oil companies and around 30,000 people
- Soon enough, in a town not but about 12 miles northwest of EL Dorado, there were uderground pools of what was called "black gold"
- This created yet anouther explosion of residency to erupt in yet anouther very small amount of time
- However, by the end of the decade, there was a dramatic decline in the oil industry
FLOOD OF 1927
- The states Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisianna
- The rivers overflowed due to heavy rain fall and and melting snow
- The rivers that caused this flooding was the red river and the mississippi
TENANTS AND SHARE CROPING AND GROWING VIOLENCE
- Tenant farmers were poor white people who paid land owners to share crops and land (share croping) in most cases
- competition for work caused tenants to intimidate and threaten black share cropers in order to scare them away
- KKK caused violence to uprise due to them secretly promoting hatred
- They intimidated, beat, and lynched hundreds of colored citizens
SOURCES :)
- Manes History Book
- aka "The Arkansas Jouney"