Even before the end of Reconstruction in Arkansas, the state already possessed a long-standing reputation for violence, including lynchings, duels, and feuds. However, the years following Reconstruction witnessed the creation of new forms of mob violence. All across the state, gangs of whites sought to drive African Americans from their homes, their jobs, and their positions of authority, creating communities shamelessly advertised as "100% white." This happened not only in the highland regions, the Ozarks and the Ouachitas, where the expulsion of African Americans created so-called "sundown...
Even before the end of Reconstruction in Arkansas, the state already possessed a long-standing reputation for violence, including lynchings, duels, an...
Racial Cleansing in Arkansas, 1883-1924: Politics, Land, Labor, and Criminality constitutes the first examination of racial cleansing within a particular state, placing Arkansas's record of exclusionary racial violence within the context of the state's political developments, as well as the context of the broader body of ethnic conflict studies.
Racial Cleansing in Arkansas, 1883-1924: Politics, Land, Labor, and Criminality constitutes the first examination of racial cleansing within a particu...
