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===Sundown town=== From 1888 to 1908, Paragould experienced a series of incidents in which White residents threatened and attacked Black residents. Some Black residents were flogged, and some of their homes and churches were burned. Arkansas Governor [[Jeff Davis (Arkansas governor)|Jeff Davis]] ordered the state militia not to intervene on behalf of Black citizens. On numerous occasions White residents ordered Black citizens to leave and never return. In 1908, they threatened them to leave or die, which resulted in an almost complete depopulation of African-Americans in the county, and earned Paragould the designation of a [[sundown town]].<ref name="EofA Race Riots">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Paragould Race Riots |url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/paragould-race-riots-8446/ |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Arkansas |access-date=February 7, 2022 |first=Nancy Snell |last=Griffith |date=September 7, 2021 }}</ref> Black children were not allowed to participate in any form of public education until 1948,<ref name="Nelson">{{cite news |last1=Nelson |first1=Rex |title=Paragould to the Bootheel |url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/jul/18/paragould-to-the-bootheel/ |newspaper=[[Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]] |access-date=February 7, 2022 |date=July 18, 2020}}</ref> and then by busing them out of the county to [[Booker T. Washington High School (Jonesboro, Arkansas)|Booker T. Washington High School]] in [[Jonesboro, Arkansas|Jonesboro]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/paragould-894/ |title=Paragould (Greene County) |date=November 12, 2020 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Arkansas |first=Mack |last=Hamblen |access-date=February 7, 2022 }}</ref> In 1957, facing [[School integration in the United States|mandated integration]], Jonesboro terminated this practice.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/booker-t-washington-high-school-11951/ |title=Booker T. Washington High School (Jonesboro) |date=September 8, 2020 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Arkansas |first=Amy |last=Ulmer |access-date=February 7, 2022 }}</ref> Prior to 1982, no hotel in Paragould would allow Black people to spend the night. In 1983, when two Black Union Pacific workers attempted to eat at a restaurant, they were locked out. When police reached the scene, they accused the workers of attempting to break into the restaurant.<ref name="Loewen">{{cite book |last1=Loewen |first1=James |title=Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism |date=2006 |publisher=Touchstone |isbn=978-0743294485 |page=278}}</ref> An informal ban on hiring African-Americans was alleged to exist in Paragould until at least 2002.<ref name="EofA Sundown Towns">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Sundown Towns |url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/sundown-towns-3658/ |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Arkansas |date=December 3, 2018 |first=James |last=Loewen |access-date=February 7, 2022}}</ref>
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