Editing Boone County, Arkansas (section)

==History==
Boone County was formed from the eastern portion of [[Carroll County, Arkansas|Carroll County]]. Contrary to popular belief, it was not named for frontiersman [[Daniel Boone]]. It was originally called ''Boon'', since the residents believed it would be a "boon" to all who settled there. The county's first newspaper, begun in 1870, was the ''Boon County Advocate''. However, when Governor [[Powell Clayton]] signed the act, creating the county 1869 it was titled ''An Act to Organize and Establish the County of Boone and for Other Purposes''. So for whatever reason an "'e'" was added.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://harrisondaily.com/stories/museum-musings-was-boone-county-named-for-the-famous-frontiersman-daniel-boone,36761|title=Museum Musings: Was Boone County Named for the Famous Frontiersman Daniel Boone?|website=Harrison Daily}}</ref>

===White supremacy===
{{See also|Harrison, Arkansas#Harrison Race Riots of 1905 and 1909}}
In 1905 and 1909, race riots were conducted to drive African-Americans out of the area. Boone County was marketed as an all-white [[sundown town|sundown county]] into the 1920s. Boone County serves as the national headquarters of the [[white supremacy]] organization [[Ku Klux Klan#Current Klan organizations|Knights of the Ku Klux Klan]], led by [[Zinc, Arkansas|Zinc]] resident [[Thomas Robb (Ku Klux Klan)|Thomas Robb]], who pastors a nearby [[Christian church]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Froelich |first=Jacqueline |date=July 26, 2017 |title=Women's Klan Rises in Arkansas |url=https://www.arkansaspublicmedia.org/post/womens-klan-rises-arkansas |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190524180314/https://www.arkansaspublicmedia.org/post/womens-klan-rises-arkansas |archive-date=May 24, 2019 |access-date=May 24, 2019 |website=Arkansas Public Media}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Schulte |first=Bret |date=April 3, 2017 |title=The Alt-Right of the Ozarks |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/04/what_harrison_arkansas_fight_with_the_kkk_says_about_the_alt_right.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024090153/http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/04/what_harrison_arkansas_fight_with_the_kkk_says_about_the_alt_right.html |archive-date=October 24, 2018 |access-date=August 19, 2017 |website=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rugh |first=Peter |date=March 11, 2014 |title=The KKK Embraces Diversity in Harrison, Arkansas |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-kkk-embraces-diversity-in-harrison-arkansas/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221100038/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xd5yew/the-kkk-embraces-diversity-in-harrison-arkansas |archive-date=February 21, 2018 |access-date=February 20, 2018 |work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Banishment Map |url=https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/banished/map.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080114005730/http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/banished/map.html |archive-date=January 14, 2008 |access-date=March 10, 2019 |website=[[Independent Lens]]: [[Banished (film)|Banished]] |publisher=[[PBS]]}}</ref> In 2017, Boone County Judge Robert Hathaway signed proclamations recognizing June as Confederate Heritage and History Month,<ref name="Confederate Heritage 2017">{{Cite news |date=May 25, 2017 |title=June proclaimed Confederate History and Heritage Month |url=https://harrisondaily.com/news/june-proclaimed-confederate-history-and-heritage-month/article_af0e1c12-40c2-11e7-9745-c3dc5d22fbfa.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130125717/https://harrisondaily.com/news/june-proclaimed-confederate-history-and-heritage-month/article_af0e1c12-40c2-11e7-9745-c3dc5d22fbfa.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018 |access-date=September 11, 2019}}</ref> and issued a similar proclamation for April 2019.<ref name="Confederate History Month 2019">{{Cite news |title=Confederate History Month |url=https://harrisondaily.com/people/confederate-history-month/article_abe6aeb0-6612-11e9-8ecb-c78b85e77bab.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424031054/https://harrisondaily.com/people/confederate-history-month/article_abe6aeb0-6612-11e9-8ecb-c78b85e77bab.html |archive-date=April 24, 2019 |access-date=August 11, 2019 |publisher=Harrison Daily}}</ref>