Ruled by Race : Black/White Relations in Arkansas from Slavery to the Present.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Voices of Slavery -- 2. Owning Slaves -- 3. The Civil War in Arkansas and the Refashioning of Black Identity -- 4. Reconstruction -- 5. Redeemers -- 6. The Coming of Jim Crow -- 7. Jeff Davis and His Legacy -- 8. The Elaine Race Massacres -- 9. The Aftermath of the Elaine Race Massacres and the Twenties -- 10. The Great Depression and the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union -- 11. The Beginning Challenge to Jim Crow -- 12. Brown v. Board of Education and the Central High Crisis -- 13. Wandering in the Wilderness of Race: 1957-1960 -- 14. The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee Years -- 15. Brothers against Brothers -- 16. The Impact of the Death of Martin Luther King Jr. -- 17. Marianna -- 18. The Seventies: No Rest for Those Weary of Race -- 19. The Eighties and Nineties: So Far to Go -- 20. Race Relations in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

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