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Race, labor, and violence in the Delta, essays to mark the centennial of the Elaine Massacre, edited by Michael Pierce and Calvin White Jr

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Race, labor, and violence in the Delta, essays to mark the centennial of the Elaine Massacre, edited by Michael Pierce and Calvin White Jr

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Race, labor, and violence in the Delta

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1290244207

Responsibility statement

edited by Michael Pierce and Calvin White Jr

Sub title

essays to mark the centennial of the Elaine Massacre

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."--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

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

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Essays to mark the centennial of the Elaine Massacre

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