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For years, historians worried that without a concerted collecting and preservation effort, the rich history of Arkansas’s African American community would be lost. In 1991, State Senator Jerry Jewell sponsored legislation that established the Arkansas Black History Advisory Committee (ABHAC) and charged the commission with preserving the history of Black Arkansans and promoting the teaching of Black history in Arkansas’s schools.

The Arkansas Black History Advisory Committee is now called the Black History Commission of Arkansas, but the mission has stayed the same. In this video, Dr. David Ware, ASA director and state historian, and Tatyana Oyinloye, ASA's African American history coordinator, talk more about the commission and its programs.