Bullets and fire : lynching and authority in Arkansas, 1840-1950 / edited by Guy Lancaster. - Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (viii, 344 pages).

Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgments; Introduction / Guy Lancaster; 1. ""Doubtless Guilty"": Lynching and Slaves in Antebellum Arkansas / Kelly Houston Jones; 2. ""At the Hands of a Person or Persons Unknown"": The Nature of Lynch Mobs in Arkansas / Nancy Snell Griffith; 3. A Lynching State: Arkansas in the 1890s / Randy Finley; 4. The Clarendon Lynching of 1898: The Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender / Richard Buckelow; 5. Thirteen Dead at Saint Charles: Arkansas's Most Lethal Lynching and the Abrogation of Equal Protection / Vincent Vinikas 6. ""Through Death, Hell and the Grave"": Lynching and Antilynching Efforts in Arkansas, 1901-1939 / Todd E. Lewis7. Before John Carter: Lynching and Mob Violence in Pulaski County, 1882-1906 / Guy Lancaster; 8. Stories of a Lynching: Accounts of John Carter, 1927 / Stephanie Harp; 9. ""Working Slowly but Surely and Quietly"": The Arkansas Council of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, 1930-1941 / Cherisse Jones-Branch; 10. Holding the Line: The Arkansas Congressional Delegation and the Fight over a Federal Antilynching Law / William H. Pruden III; Contributors



9781610756228


Lynching--History.--Arkansas


Electronic Books.

HV6465 / .B855 2018