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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ISBN | 9781682262061 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | University of Arkansas Press |
Jahr | 20220531 |
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