Race, labor, and violence in the delta: essays to mark the centennial of the Elaine massacre
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 nightri...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Fayetteville
University of Arkansas Press
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
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| Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. UB: KB 21 A 2825 |
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| Keywords: |
African Americans
> Violence against
> Arkansas
> Arkansas Delta
> History
> 19th century
> Congresses
African Americans
> Violence against
> Arkansas
> Arkansas Delta
> History
> 20th century
> Congresses
USA
> Bürgerkrieg
> Rassenkonflikt
> Lohnarbeit
> Rassismus
> Diskriminierung
> Gewalttätigkeit
> Massaker
> Geschichte
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| Summary: | 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. "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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | ix, 237 Seiten 1 Karte |
| ISBN: | 9781682262061 9781682262054 |