Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-514) and index.
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.
