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Author Harper, Kimberly, 1982-

Title White man's heaven : the lynching and expulsion of blacks in the Southern Ozarks, 1894-1909 / Kimberly Harper
Published Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 325 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Pierce City: "we were once slaves" -- Pierce City: "white man's heaven" -- Pierce City: the lark and Godley trials -- Joplin: "have mercy on my soul" -- Joplin: "hurrah for Hickory Bill" -- Springfield: "the devil was just as good a friend to God" -- Springfield: "a slumbering volcano" -- Springfield: "the Easter offering" -- Springfield: "they certainly had not the bearing of deacons" -- Springfield: "murder in the air" -- Harrison: "their voices filled the air" -- Conclusion
Summary This book is a thorough investigation into the lynching and expulsion of African Americans in the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author explores events in the towns of Monett, Pierce City, Joplin, and Springfield, Missouri, and Harrison, Arkansas, to show how post-Civil War vigilantism, an established tradition of extralegal violence, and the rapid political, economic, and social change of the New South era happened independently but were also part of a larger, interconnected regional experience
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Lynching -- Missouri -- History
Racism -- Missouri -- History
African Americans -- Violence against -- Missouri -- History
African Americans -- Missouri -- Social conditions
African Americans -- Relocation -- Missouri -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
African Americans -- Violence against
African Americans -- Relocation
African Americans -- Social conditions
Lynching
Race relations
Racism
Lynchjustiz.
SUBJECT Missouri -- Race relations -- History
Subject Missouri
Ozark Mountains.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781610754569
1610754565