Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre

Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre
ISBN-10
1682262065
ISBN-13
9781682262061
Category
History
Pages
248
Language
English
Published
2022
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Authors
Michael Pierce, Calvin White

Description

"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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