White man's heaven : the lynching and expulsion of blacks in the Southern Ozarks, 1894-1909 /

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This book is a thorough investigation into the lynching and expulsion of African Americans in the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author explores events in the towns of Monett, Pierce City, Joplin, and Springfield, Missouri, and Harrison, Arkansas, to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Harper, Kimberly, 1982-
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Lynching > Missouri > History.
Racism > Missouri > History.
African Americans > Violence against > Missouri > History.
African Americans > Missouri > Social conditions.
African Americans > Relocation > Missouri > History.
Lynchage > Missouri > Histoire.
Racisme > Missouri > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Missouri > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
African Americans > Violence against
African Americans > Relocation
African Americans > Social conditions
Lynching
Race relations
Racism
Lynchjustiz.
Missouri > Race relations > History.
Missouri > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Missouri
Ozark Mountains.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Pierce City: "we were once slaves"
  • Pierce City: "white man's heaven"
  • Pierce City: the lark and Godley trials
  • Joplin: "have mercy on my soul"
  • Joplin: "hurrah for Hickory Bill"
  • Springfield: "the devil was just as good a friend to God"
  • Springfield: "a slumbering volcano"
  • Springfield: "the Easter offering"
  • Springfield: "they certainly had not the bearing of deacons"
  • Springfield: "murder in the air"
  • Harrison: "their voices filled the air"
  • Conclusion.

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