Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta : Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre /

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"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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Other Authors: White, Calvin, 1973- (Editor), Pierce, Michael C. (Michael Cain) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race relations.
Night riding (Racial violence)
Labor unions > Organizing.
African Americans > Violence against.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
Syndicalisation > Arkansas > Arkansas, Delta de l' > Congres.
Noirs americains > Arkansas > Arkansas, Delta de l' > Conditions economiques > 20e siecle > Congres.
Noirs americains > Arkansas > Arkansas, Delta de l' > Conditions economiques > 19e siecle > Congres.
Elaine Massacre, Elaine, Ark., 1919 > Congresses.
Night riding (Racial violence) > Arkansas > Arkansas Delta > Congresses.
Labor unions > Organizing > Arkansas > Arkansas Delta > Congresses.
African Americans > Arkansas > Arkansas Delta > Economic conditions > 20th century > Congresses.
African Americans > Arkansas > Arkansas Delta > Economic conditions > 19th century > Congresses.
African Americans > Violence against > Arkansas > Arkansas Delta > History > 20th century > Congresses.
African Americans > Violence against > Arkansas > Arkansas Delta > History > 19th century > Congresses.
Louisiana > Mississippi River Delta.
Arkansas > Arkansas Delta.
Mississippi, Delta du (Louis.) > Relations raciales > Congres.
Arkansas, Delta de l' (Ark.) > Relations raciales > Congres.
Mississippi River Delta (La.) > Race relations > Congresses.
Arkansas Delta (Ark.) > Race relations > Congresses.
History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource: maps
ISBN:9781610757751

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