Arkansas to open state black history museum with gala in September

Thursday, July 31, 2008

LITTLE ROCK -- An insurance business incorporated in 1883 by two former slaves when segregation laws and white businesses considered blacks nearly invisible opens with fanfare this fall as a new state museum to honor black heritage.

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