Ruled by race
Subtitle: Black/White relations in Arkansas from slavery to the present
By: Grif Stockley.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 529
ISBN-13: 9781557288851
Subjects: African Americans -- Arkansas -- History; African Americans -- Arkansas -- Social conditions; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Arkansas; Arkansas -- Race relations
Description: "From the Civil War to Reconstruction, the Redeemer period, Jim Crow, and the modern civil rights era to the present, Ruled by Race describes the ways that race has been at the center of much of the state's formation and image since its founding. Grif Stockley uses the work of published and unpublished historians and exhaustive primary source materials along with stories from authors as diverse as Maya Angelou and E. Lynn Harris to bring to life the voices of those who have both studied and lived the racial experience in Arkansas.".

"Topics range from the well-known Little Rock Central High Crisis of 1957 to lesser-known events such as the Elaine Race Massacres of 1919 and the shocking yet sadly commonplace attitudes found in newspaper reports and speeches. Through the words of the most powerful Arkansans such as racist Arkansas Govenor Jeff Davis (1901-1906) to the least powerful, including an unflinching look at the narratives of former slaves, readers will come away with increased awareness of the ways that race continues to affect where Arkansans live, send their children to school, work, travel, shop, spend leisure time, worship, and choose their friends and life partners."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Voices of slavery; title: Owning slaves; title: The Civil War in Arkansas and the refashioning of Black identity; title: Reconstruction; title: Redeemers; title: The coming of Jim Crow; title: Jeff Davis and his legacy; title: The Elaine race massacres; title: The aftermath of the Elaine race massacres and the twenties; title: The Great Depression and the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union; title: The beginning challenge to Jim Crow; title: Brown v. Board of Education and the Central High Crisis; title: Wandering in the wilderness of race : 1957-1960; title: The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee years; title: Brothers against brothers; title: The impact of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.; title: Marianna; title: The seventies : no rest for those weary of race; title: The eighties and nineties : so far to go; title: Race relations in the twenty-first century.