WASHINGTON – The Ethnic Minority Museum Association (E.M.M.A.) will be hosting a rededication of the E.M.M.A. Black History Museum on Saturday, August 16, 2025, from 9 AM to 11 AM at the museum, which is located at 106 Franklin Street in Washington, Arkansas. The rededication will be held in honor of the 100th birthday of the museum’s founder, Mrs. Mildred Johnson Smith. In addition, the museum will be dedicating two historic markers during the ceremony. All are invited to attend the ceremony.

One marker will celebrate the life of Archer Shepperson (1850-1905), a man born into slavery who became a farmer, a law enforcement officer, a pioneering educator and education advocate, an Arkansas state representative, and a community leader.

The other marker will commemorate the Southwest Distr

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