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Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919

De : Grif Stockley
Lu par : Eddie Frierson
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    In late September 1919, black sharecroppers met to protest unfair settlements for their cotton crops from white plantation owners. Local law enforcement broke up the union's meeting, and the next day a thousand white men from the Delta - and troops of the US Army itself - converged on Phillips County, Arkansas, to "put down" the black sharecroppers' "insurrection". In riveting, novelistic prose, writer and Delta native Grif Stockley considers the evidence and tells the full story of this incident for the first time, concluding that black people were murdered in Elaine by white mobs and federal soldiers. Five white men died as a result of the conflict; contemporary estimates of African American deaths ranged from 20 to an even more horrifying 856. White officials jailed hundreds of black workers, torturing some of them. Twelve black men were charged with first-degree murder. Their legal battles lasted six years, but national and local silence has persisted much longer.

    Stockley takes on this silence and shows that it resulted from sustained official efforts to convince the public that only blacks who had resisted lawful authority were killed. He shows too that it is part of a larger silence in which the fear and terror that were the daily staples of the African American experience have been summed up all too easily in the term "Jim Crow" in a failure to fully confront the anguish of the period.

    The book is published by The University of Arkansas Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

    Winner of the 2002 Booker Worthen Literary PrizE

    ©2004 The University of Arkansas Press (P)2020 Redwood Audiobooks

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    "A relentless examination of one of the bloodiest American racial repressions of the 20th century." (William M. Tuttle Jr., author of Race Riot)

    “Deepens our knowledge of the psychodynamics of white supremacy.” (David Levering Lewis, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author)

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