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===20th century=== ====Harrison Race Riots of 1905 and 1909==== In 1905 and 1909, white race riots occurred in Harrison, which drove away black residents and established the community as one of hundreds of [[sundown town]]s in the country.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Harrison Race Riots of 1905 and 1909|date=August 13, 2014|last=Lancaster|first=Guy|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Arkansas|publisher=Central Arkansas Library System|url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/harrison-race-riots-of-1905-and-1909-3712/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FPxJ_aG_B-8C&pg=PA36|title=Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism|last=Loewen|first=James|date=2005|publisher=The New Press|isbn=9781595586742|location=New York|pages=36β37|language=en}}</ref> In 1901, the building of the St. Louis and North Arkansas Railroad through Harrison bolstered the local economy.<ref name="CALS Race">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Harrison Race Riots of 1905 and 1909 |url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/harrison-race-riots-of-1905-and-1909-3712/ |access-date=2024-09-02 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Arkansas}}</ref> Economic hardship ensued following the railroad's bankruptcy on July 1, 1905.<ref name="CALS Race" /> On October 2, 1905, a white mob breached the Harrison jail, captured two Black prisoners, drove the prisoners outside city limits, whipped them, and threatened them to leave the community.<ref name="CALS Race" /> The white mob then went to the Black community and burned their houses and fired guns at their windows with the message that they should leave the town.<ref name="CALS Race" /> At least one person, railroad worker George Richards, was murdered during the event.<ref name="CALS Race" /> Local law enforcement declined to take action to press charges for the riot.<ref name="CALS Race" /> On January 18, 1909, Charles Stinnett was arrested and charged with the rape of a white woman named Lovett.<ref name="CALS Race" /> Although Stinnett testified that he did not assault the woman and only meant to rob her, a jury sentenced him to [[Hanging|hang]] on February 26, 1909.<ref name="CALS Race" /> A mob arrived at the jail to lynch Stinnett after learning that Lovett was very ill, and the mob's presence forced many remaining Black residents out of Harrison on January 28, 1909.<ref name="CALS Race" /> Stinnett was set to be hanged on March 24, 1909, but his execution was delayed for three hours because he was drunk.<ref name="CALS Race" /> Stinnett died as a result of strangulation from a failed hanging fifteen minutes after his execution began.<ref name="CALS Race" /> ====Later 20th century==== The bank robber and convicted murderer [[Henry Starr]] was in Harrison on February 18, 1921, when Starr and three companions entered the People's State Bank and robbed it of $6,000.00. During the robbery, Starr was shot by the former president of the bank, William J. Myers. Starr was carried to the [[Boone County Jail|town jail]], where he died the next morning.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-henrystarr.html |title=Henry Starr β The Cherokee Bad Boy |publisher= Legends of America |access-date=December 26, 2010}}</ref> On May 7, 1961, heavy rain caused Crooked Creek, immediately south of the downtown business district, to flood the town square and much of the southwestern part of the city. Water levels inside buildings reached {{convert|8|ft|m|spell=in}}. Many small buildings and automobiles were swept away. According to the [[American Red Cross]], four people died, 80 percent of the town's business district was destroyed, and over 300 buildings were damaged or destroyed in losses exceeding $5.4 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bchrs.org/collections/1961flood/index.html|title=1961 Harrison Flood|publisher=Boone County Historical & Railroad Society|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630190041/http://www.bchrs.org/collections/1961flood/index.html|archive-date=June 30, 2007|access-date=August 31, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1962, [[Sam Walton]] opened his second [[Walmart]] store in Harrison.<ref>Vance H. Trimble, Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man, pp.46β64 (Dutton, 1990)</ref> In 1982, [[Kingdom Identity Ministries]], an anti-gay [[Christian Identity]] outreach ministry identified as a [[hate group]] by the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]], was founded in Harrison.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y5In7xScVbwC&q=%20kingdom+identity+ministries&pg=PA158|title=Waves of Rancor: Tuning in the Radical Right|last1=Hilliard|first1=Robert L.|last2=Keith|first2=Michael C.|date=1999|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=9780765601315|pages=158|language=en}}</ref><ref name="SPLCKIM">{{cite web|title=Kingdom Identity Ministries|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/kingdom-identity-ministries|publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]|access-date=August 22, 2017}}</ref>
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