Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1
Black Agricultural Labor Activism and White Oppression in the Arkansas Delta: The Cotton Pickers’ Strike of 1891
Matthew Hild
Chapter 2
“Night Riding Must Not Be Tolerated in Arkansas”: One State’s Uneven War against Economic Vigilantism
Guy Lancaster
Chapter 3
Black Workers, White Nightriders, and the Supreme Court’s Changing View of the Thirteenth Amendment
William H. Pruden III
Chapter 4
Henry Lowery Lynching: A Legacy of the Elaine Massacre?
Jeannie Whayne
Chapter 5
Black Women, Violence, and Criminality in Post–World War I Arkansas, 1919–1922
Cherisse Jones-Branch
Chapter 6
Steadily Holding Our Heads above Water: The Flood of 1927, White Violence, and Black Resistance to Labor
Exploitation in the Mississippi Delta
Michael Vinson Williams
Chapter 7
“Boss Man Tell Us to Get North”: Mexican Labor and Black Migration in Lincoln County, Arkansas, 1948–1955
Michael Pierce
Chapter 8
Sweet Willie Wine’s 1969 Walk against Fear: Black Activism and White Response in East Arkansas Fifty Years after the Elaine Massacre
John A. Kirk
Chapter 9
“Sick and Sinister”: Intersections of Violence and the Struggle for Economic Justice in the Late Twentieth Century
Greta de Jong
Epilogue
Evil in the Delta
Michael Honey
Notes
Contributors
Index