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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Arkansas Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

ix, 237 pages : map ; 23 cm

Subject:

African Americans--History--Arkansas Delta--Arkansas Delta--History--19th century--Congresses.
African Americans--History--Arkansas Delta--Arkansas Delta--History--20th century--Congresses.
African Americans--Arkansas Delta--Arkansas Delta--Economic conditions--19th century--Congresses.
African Americans--Arkansas Delta--Arkansas Delta--Economic conditions--20th century--Congresses.
Labor unions--Organizing--Arkansas Delta--Arkansas Delta--Congresses.
Night riding (Racial violence)--Arkansas Delta--Arkansas Delta--Congresses.
Elaine Massacre, Elaine, Ark., 1919--Congresses.
Arkansas Delta (Ark.)--Race relations--Congresses.
Mississippi River Delta (La.)--Race relations--Congresses.
Noirs americains--Arkansas, Delta de l'--Arkansas, Delta de l'--Conditions economiques--19e siecle--Congres.
Noirs americains--Arkansas, Delta de l'--Arkansas, Delta de l'--Conditions economiques--20e siecle--Congres.
Syndicalisation--Arkansas, Delta de l'--Arkansas, Delta de l'--Congres.
Arkansas, Delta de l' (Ark.)--Relations raciales--Congres.
Mississippi, Delta du (Louis.)--Relations raciales--Congres.
African Americans--Economic conditions.
African Americans--Violence against.
Labor unions--Organizing.
Night riding (Racial violence)
Race relations.
Arkansas--Arkansas Delta.
Louisiana--Mississippi River Delta.
1800-1999
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

Other Authors:

Pierce, Michael C. (Michael Cain), editor.
White, Calvin, 1973- editor.
University of Arkansas Press.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index. Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.

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.

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.

ISBN:

1682262065
9781682262061
1682262057
9781682262054

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1290244207

LCCN:

2021060183

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)