Mapping the Branch Normal College at Pine Bluff

Founded in 1873, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff was created to educate Black Arkansans who had been freed from slavery a decade earlier. Originally named the Branch Normal College, the college had an all-Black faculty and student body. The college was founded to train schoolteachers, and students studied a truncated college curriculum. The alumni played a prominent role throughout the state.

This website allows you to explore some the college's early history through geography and graphics.