Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta

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Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta is written by Michael Pierce and published by University of Arkansas Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1682262065 (ISBN 10) and 9781682262061 (ISBN 13).

"This essay collection grew out of a conference marking the hundredth anniversary of one of the nation's deadliest labor conflicts - the 1919 Elaine Massacre, during which white mobs ruthlessly slaughtered over two hundred African Americans across Phillips County, Arkansas, in response to a meeting of unionized Black sharecroppers. The essays here demonstrate that the brutality that unfolded in Phillips County was characteristic of the culture of race- and labor-based violence that prevailed in the century after the Civil War"--