Editing Forrest City, Arkansas (section)

===20th century===
The Imperial Council of Jugamos, a fraternal organization of African Americans founded in 1910 by Wallace Leon Purifoy had its headquarters in Forrest City.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b9mJ6sT-1bAC&dq=%C2%A0purifoy+arkansas+jugamos&pg=PA91|title=The National Cyclopedia of the Colored Race|first=Clement|last=Richardson|date=June 7, 1919|publisher=National Publishing Company|via=Google Books}}</ref> The ''Forrest City Herald'' printed its constitution in 1916.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UYL3zQEACAAJ|title=Constitution and General Laws of the Imperial Council of Jugamos|first=Imperial Council of|last=Jugamos|date=June 7, 1916|publisher=Forrest City Herald Print|via=Google Books}}</ref> The ''New Castle Herald'' noted the group and its officers in 1919.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-castle-herald-1919-01-15/12895677/|title=1919 - 01 15 -|date=January 15, 1919|pages=4|via=newspapers.com}}</ref>

In 1940, Forrest City was a stop for the ''[[Choctaw Rocket]]'', a passenger train operated by the [[Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad]].  Service was discontinued in 1964. Evidence that [[giant mastodons]] roamed the slope was revealed in 1949 when workmen excavating for sewer improvements found bones of the massive beasts within the city limits.

In 1988, [[Forrest City High School]] held its first integrated prom. After school integration was ordered in the mid-1960s, Forrest City eliminated school-sponsored dances and social activities. For 23 years, social clubs and individual families had organized a racially [[segregated prom]].<ref>{{cite news | last = McIntosh | first = Barbara | title = The Class That Crossed the Great Divide; In Arkansas, a High School's First Integrated Prom | newspaper = The Washington Post | date = May 2, 1988 | url = https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73589335.html?dids=73589335:73589335&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=May+02%2C+1988&author=Barbara+McIntosh&pub=The+Washington+Post+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=The+Class+That+Crossed+the+Great+Divide%3B+In+Arkansas%2C+a+High+School%27s+First+Integrated+Prom&pqatl=google | access-date = July 6, 2017 | archive-date = November 18, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121118195028/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73589335.html?dids=73589335%3A73589335&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS%3AFT&type=current&date=May+02%2C+1988&author=Barbara+McIntosh&pub=The+Washington+Post+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=The+Class+That+Crossed+the+Great+Divide%3B+In+Arkansas%2C+a+High+School%27s+First+Integrated+Prom&pqatl=google | url-status = dead }}</ref>