Blood in Their Eyes
Subtitle: The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781557287724
Subjects: Social Science; Sociology; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Minority Studies - Race Relations; United States - State & Local - General; Discrimination & Racism
First sentence: When Democratic governor Charles Hillman Brough received the initial telegram from the mayor of Elaine, Sid Stokes, one of his earliest political allies in the Delta, requesting troops to quell "race riots in Elaine" on October 1, 1919, he was at the end of a special session of the Arkansas legislature.