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Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta
Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre
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Artikel-Nr:
9781682262061
Veröffentl:
2022
Erscheinungsdatum:
11.05.2022
Seiten:
248
Autor:
Michael Pierce
Gewicht:
159 g
Format:
228x150x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Michael Pierce is associate professor of history at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He is the author of Striking with the Ballot: Ohio Labor and the Populist Party.
"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"