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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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Autres auteurs: White, Calvin, 1973- (Éditeur intellectuel), Pierce, Michael C. (Michael Cain) (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2022.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:"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"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource: maps
ISBN:9781610757751