West Helena has not been able to pass a budget, or renew the property tax that provides money to pave the streets and run the city.

Whites here seem baffled by that fact, as they are by the sudden black anger over longstanding conditions on the other side of West Helena.

West Helena is about 80 miles south of Memphis on the Mississippi River.

Denison House in West Helena, Arkansas was built in 1910.

Near West Helena, Arkansas, several mobile homes were destroyed.

He left home with his uncle and moved to West Helena, Arkansas, finding Williamson there.

Neighboring West Helena had 8,689 people in 11.5 km2.

The median income for a household in West Helena is $21,130, and the median income for a family was $25,014.

The per capita income for West Helena is $11,234.

Blackwell and her mother went to West Helena, Arkansas to live with Blackwell's great aunt so that she had the opportunity to receive an education.