Research Catalog

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.

Publication

• Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2022.
• ©2022

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Pierce, Michael C. (Michael Cain)
• White, Calvin, 1973-
• University of Arkansas Press.

Description

ix, 237 pages : map; 23 cm

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"--

Alternative Title

Essays to mark the centennial of the Elaine Massacre

Subject

• 1800-1999
• African Americans > Violence against > History > Arkansas > Arkansas Delta > 19th century > Congresses
• African Americans > Violence against > History > Arkansas > Arkansas Delta > 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
• 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.

Note

• Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

Sc E 22-1413

ISBN

• 9781682262054
• 1682262057
• 9781682262061
• 1682262065

LCCN

2021060183

OCLC

1290244207

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.

Publisher

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1999

Added Author

Pierce, Michael C. (Michael Cain), editor.

White, Calvin, 1973- editor.

University of Arkansas Press.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-1413