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

Author/creator Stockley, Grif
Format Book
Publication InfoFayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2009.
Descriptionxxiii, 529 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
African Americans--Arkansas. --History.
African Americans--Arkansas. --Social conditions.
African Americans--Civil rights. --Arkansas.
Arkansas--Race relations.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 507-514) and index.
LCCN 2008031017
ISBN9781557288851 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1557288852 (cloth : alk. paper)