Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Pine Bluff, United States

Pine Bluff, Arkansas participates in 75 connections spanning 7335 places across 16 topics, with history, government, nature, and military threads running through the mix. Federal forces occupied the city in 1863, drawing refugees and freedmen after the Emancipation Proclamation. The Army later built Grider Field Airport to train air cadets for the Army Air Corps. Bishop Henry McNeal Turner's "Back to Africa" movement drew local African-American residents toward emigration. Blues Hall of Fame producer J. Mayo Williams ties Pine Bluff to music history.

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