Important Arkansas historical events and significant anniversaries for December 6, and notable births and deaths of native Arkansans born on this date. Information is drawn from state archives, historical societies, contemporary newspapers and other media archives, and legal records. Historical Arkansas events and birthdays occurring on December 6. ChatGPH has collected this data.
1877 – Lynching of Wash Atkinson at Arkadelphia. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas’s “Post-Reconstruction through the Gilded Age” timeline notes that on December 6, 1877, an African American man named Wash Atkinson was hanged by a mob in Arkadelphia. Atkinson had reportedly been arrested and then taken by a mob and hanged from a railroad bridge…