Editing Zinc, Arkansas (section)

==History==
[[File:Farm Security Administration, abandoned zinc mine, Arkansas - NARA - 195523.tif|thumb|left|People of Zinc, {{circa}} 1935]]

[[Zinc mining]] in the area gave the town its name.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|title=Colorful Names|url=http://www.arkansas.com/things-to-do/history-heritage/colorful-names/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131124055328/http://www.arkansas.com/things-to-do/history-heritage/colorful-names/|archive-date=November 24, 2013|access-date=July 14, 2014|publisher=Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism}}</ref> Zinc and lead mining began in the 1890s and peaked during [[World War I]] (1914–1918). A post office was established in Zinc in 1900 and the town was incorporated in 1904.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Zinc (Boone County)|url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/zinc-boone-county-6203/|access-date=July 24, 2020|website=Encyclopedia of Arkansas|language=en}}</ref>

The town had a number of business establishments and a school in the 1920s, but a flood in 1927 caused damage to homes and businesses. Zinc's population was 188 in 1930 and declined thereafter. The last store closed in Zinc in the late 1960s and the post office closed in 1975.<ref name=":0" />

Zinc, in the 21st century, became the headquarters of a chapter of the [[Knights of the Ku Klux Klan]] (KKK),<ref name=":0" /> classified as a [[hate group]] by the [[Anti-Defamation League]]<ref name=":3">{{cite web |url=http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/kkk/ |title=About the Ku Klux Klan |website=Anti-Defamation League |access-date=July 9, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003050902/http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/kkk/ |archive-date=October 3, 2012 }}</ref> and the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/ku-klux-klan|title=Ku Klux Klan|website=Southern Poverty Law Center}}</ref> The "Christian Revival Center" near Zinc belongs to a [[preacher]] named [[Thomas Robb (Ku Klux Klan)|Thomas Robb]] who is also the leader of the [[Ku Klux Klan|Knights of the KKK]]. The center hosts events connected with the KKK, including in 2013 a "Klan Kamp" called the "Soldiers of the Cross Training Institute" to instill "the tools to become actively involved" in the "struggle for our racial redemption".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/thomas-robb|title=Thomas Robb|website=Southern Poverty Law Center}}</ref>

Other activities of the KKK near Zinc include the placement of signs along highways with messages such as "Diversity is a code for #whitegenocide".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Schulte|first=Bret|date=April 3, 2017|title=The Alt-Right of the Ozarks|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/04/what-harrison-arkansas-fight-with-the-kkk-says-about-the-alt-right.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724201814/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/04/what-harrison-arkansas-fight-with-the-kkk-says-about-the-alt-right.html|archive-date=July 24, 2020|access-date=August 19, 2017|website=Slate Magazine|language=en}}</ref>

In May 2022, English [[YouTuber]] [[Niko Omilana]] published a video documenting his experiences in Zinc and Harrison while disguised as a journalist for the [[BBC]]. The video includes an interview with Robb, where Robb unwittingly shouts out fake Instagram users whose names phoneticize phrases such as "[[Black Lives Matter|BLM]]".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Browning |first=Oliver |date=May 16, 2022 |title=YouTuber pranks KKK leader into saying 'BLM' during fake BBC interview |work=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/culture/kkk-leader-youtube-prank-niko-omilana-b2080008.html/ |access-date=June 9, 2022}}</ref>