Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta : Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre /
"This essay collection grew out of a conference marking the hundredth anniversary of one of the nation's deadliest labor conflicts - the 1919 Elaine Massacre, during which white mobs ruthlessly slaughtered over two hundred African Americans across Phillips County, Arkansas, in response to...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fayetteville :
The University of Arkansas Press,
2022.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Temas: |
Noirs americains
> Arkansas
> Arkansas, Delta de l'
> Conditions economiques
> 20e siecle
> Congres.
Noirs americains
> Arkansas
> Arkansas, Delta de l'
> Conditions economiques
> 19e siecle
> Congres.
African Americans
> Violence against
> Arkansas
> Arkansas Delta
> History
> 20th century
> Congresses.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Black agricultural labor activism and white oppression in the Arkansas Delta: the cotton pickers' strike of 1891 / Matthew Hild
- "Night riding must not be tolerated in Arkansas": one state's uneven war against economic vigilantism / Guy Lancaster
- Black workers, white nightriders, and the Supreme Court's changing view of the Thirteenth Amendment / William H. Pruden III
- Henry Lowery lynching: a legacy of the Elaine Massacre? / Jeannie Whayne
- Black women, violence, and criminality in post-World War I Arkansas, 1919-1922 / Cherisse Jones-Branch
- Steadily holding our heads above water: the flood of 1927, white violence, and black resistance to labor exploitation in the Mississippi Delta / Michael Vinson Williams
- "Boss man tell us to get north": Mexican labor and Black migration in Lincoln County, Arkansas, 1948-1955 / Michael Pierce
- Sweet Willie Wine's 1969 walk against fear: Black activism and white response in east Arkansas fifty years after the Elaine Massacre / John A. Kirk
- "Sick and sinister": intersections of violence and the struggle for economic justice in the late twentieth century / Greta de Jong
- Evil in the Delta / Michael Honey.