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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: White, Calvin, 1973- (Editor ), Pierce, Michael C. (Michael Cain) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.