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.
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