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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stockley, Grif
Language:English
Published: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Arkansas > Race relations.
African Americans > Arkansas > History.
African Americans > Arkansas > Social conditions.
African Americans > Civil rights > Arkansas.
Physical Description:xxiii, 529 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.