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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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pierce, Michael C. (Michael Cain) (Editor ), White, Calvin, 1973- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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 a meeting of unionized Black sharecroppers. The essays here demonstrate that the brutality that unfolded in Phillips County was characteristic of the culture of race- and labor-based violence that prevailed in the century after the Civil War"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 237 pages) : maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1610757750
9781610757751