July
30, 2001
August issue of ‘Arkansas Review’
focuses on study of 1919 riots at Elaine
The August issue of "Arkansas
Review," a magazine specializing in the Mississippi River Delta and
published by the Department of English and Philosophy at Arkansas State
University, focuses on the Elaine, Arkansas, Race Riots of 1919.
Guest-edited by C. Calvin Smith, professor of history at ASU, the issue
includes presentations and panel discussions from a March 2000
conference at the Delta Cultural Center in Helena.
Arising from a dispute over tenant farmers and workers’ efforts to
organize a union in Phillips County, the October 1919 violence resulted
in at least 30 deaths. Federal troops were called in, and legal cases
resulting from the violence made their way to the U. S. Supreme Court.
Contributors to the August issue of "Arkansas Review" include
Tom W. Dillard, director of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at
the Central Arkansas Library System at Little Rock; Jeannie M. Whayne,
chair of the Department of History at the University of Arkansas at
Fayetteville; Ronnie A. Nichols, former director of Little Rock's Old
State House Museum; John William Graves, professor of history at
Henderson State University in Arkadelphia; and Griffin J. Stockley,
Little Rock attorney whose book on the Elaine violence will be published
this fall by the University of Arkansas Press.
The issue also includes transcriptions of panel discussions from the
2000 conference and short presentations of useful sources and resources
by Cary Cox of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies and Sarah
Wilkerson-Freeman, associate professor of history at ASU.
Cost of the issue is $7.50. Subscriptions to "Arkansas Review"
(three issues) are $20. Checks should be made payable to "ASU
Foundation" with "Arkansas Review" on the memo line.
For further details, contact the Department of English and Philosophy,
Arkansas State University, State University, AR 72467, or phone
870-972-3043.
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