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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818941203321

Autore

Stockley Grif

Titolo

Ruled by race : black/white relations in Arkansas from slavery to the present / / Grif Stockley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fayetteville, : University of Arkansas Press, 2009

ISBN

1-61075-356-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 529 p., [16] p. of plates ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

305.896/0730767

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights - Arkansas

African Americans - Arkansas - History

African Americans - Arkansas - Social conditions

Arkansas Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-514) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Voices of slavery -- Owning slaves -- The Civil War in Arkansas and the refashioning of Black identity -- Reconstruction -- Redeemers -- The coming of Jim Crow -- Jeff Davis and his legacy -- The Elaine race massacres -- The aftermath of the Elaine race massacres and the twenties -- The Great Depression and the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union -- The beginning challenge to Jim Crow -- Brown v. Board of Education and the Central High Crisis -- Wandering in the wilderness of race : 1957-1960 -- The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee years -- Brothers against brothers -- The impact of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Marianna -- The seventies : no rest for those weary of race -- The eighties and nineties : so far to go -- Race relations in the twenty-first century.

Sommario/riassunto

"From the Civil War to Reconstruction, the Redeemer period, Jim Crow, and the modern civil rights era to the present, Ruled by Race describes the ways that race has been at the center of much of the state's formation and image since its founding. Grif Stockley uses the work of published and unpublished historians and exhaustive primary source materials along with stories from authors as diverse as Maya Angelou and E. Lynn Harris to bring to life the voices of those who have both studied and lived the racial experience in Arkansas.".



"Topics range from the well-known Little Rock Central High Crisis of 1957 to lesser-known events such as the Elaine Race Massacres of 1919 and the shocking yet sadly commonplace attitudes found in newspaper reports and speeches. Through the words of the most powerful Arkansans such as racist Arkansas Govenor Jeff Davis (1901-1906) to the least powerful, including an unflinching look at the narratives of former slaves, readers will come away with increased awareness of the ways that race continues to affect where Arkansans live, send their children to school, work, travel, shop, spend leisure time, worship, and choose their friends and life partners."--BOOK JACKET.