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

ISBN-13: 9781682262054 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 248 str.

Michael Pierce; Calvin White

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments — Introduction
• Chapter 1; Black Agricultural Labor Activism and White Oppression in the Arkansas Delta: The Cotton Pickers’ Strike of 1891 — Matthew Hild
• Chapter 2; “Night Riding Must Not Be Tolerated in Arkansas”: One State’s Uneven War against Economic Vigilantism — Guy Lancaster
• Chapter 3; Black Workers, White Nightriders, and the Supreme Court’s Changing View of the Thirteenth Amendment — William H. Pruden III
• Chapter 4; Henry Lowery Lynching: A Legacy of the Elaine Massacre? — Jeannie Whayne
• Chapter 5; Black Women, Violence, and Criminality in Post–World War I Arkansas, 1919–1922 — Cherisse Jones-Branch
• Chapter 6; 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
• Chapter 7; “Boss Man Tell Us to Get North”: Mexican Labor and Black Migration in Lincoln County, Arkansas, 1948–1955 — Michael Pierce
• Chapter 8; 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
• Chapter 9; “Sick and Sinister”: Intersections of Violence and the Struggle for Economic Justice in the Late Twentieth Century — Greta de Jong
• Epilogue; Evil in the Delta — Michael Honey

  Notes — Contributors — Index