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

Published Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 237 pages) : maps 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject African Americans -- Violence against -- Arkansas -- Arkansas Delta -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses African Americans -- Violence against -- Arkansas -- Arkansas Delta -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses African Americans -- Arkansas -- Arkansas Delta -- Economic conditions -- 19th century -- Congresses African Americans -- Arkansas -- Arkansas Delta -- Economic conditions -- 20th century -- Congresses Labor unions -- Organizing -- Arkansas -- Arkansas Delta -- Congresses Night riding (Racial violence) -- Arkansas -- Arkansas Delta -- Congresses Elaine Massacre, Elaine, Ark., 1919 -- Congresses HISTORY / General African Americans -- Economic conditions African Americans -- Violence against Labor unions -- Organizing Night riding (Racial violence) Race relations Arkansas Delta (Ark.) -- Race relations -- Congresses Mississippi River Delta (La.) -- Race relations -- Congresses Arkansas -- Arkansas Delta Louisiana -- Mississippi River Delta Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings History Form Electronic book Author Pierce, Michael C. (Michael Cain), editor White, Calvin, 1973- editor LC no. 2021060184 ISBN 1610757750 9781610757751

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