Ruled by race black/white relations in Arkansas from slavery to the present - Stockley, Grif (University of Arkansas Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-514) and index
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 Farmer's 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
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 Grif Stockley uses the work of published and unpublished historians and exhaustive primary source materials along with stories from authors as diverse as Maya Angelou and E. Lynn Harris to bring to life the voices of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. --From publisher's description