Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Depression Arkansas: A Season Without Rain
I. Before the Flood
II. The Old Politics Survives the New Deal
III. Land and Labor
IV. The Quest for Tradition and Identity
V. When Electricity Came to Arkansas
2. Wartime Arkansas: Eroding Barriers
I. Questions of Loyalty
II. Mobilization: Changes at Home and Work
III. Industrialization without Revolution
IV. Sounding the Trumpet: Early Civil Rights Struggles
3. Arkansas at Midcentury: Manufacturing Opportunity
I. The Managerial Reform of Government
II. Land of Opportunity
III. The Springtime of Moderation: Early School Desegregation
4. Arkansas Divided
I. Lines of Resistance: The Little Rock Crisis
II. Civil Rights in Little Rock, Civil Rights beyond Little Rock
III. Politics after Segregation
IV. Many Rivers to Cross: The New Environmentalism
5. An American State
I. Uneven Progress: Corporate Growth on the Edge of the Sun Belt
II. Uneven Progress: A Rural Economy in a Global System
III. State Government, National Politics
IV. Life in New Arkansas, Life in Old Arkansas
V. Arkansas Culture: Fields of Memory, Stones of History
VI. Changing the Guard in a One-Party State
Selected Sources
Index