Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919

by Grif Stockley

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Winner of the 2002 Booker Worthen Literary Prize

American Association of State and Local History Award 2003

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 U.S. Army itself--converged on Phillips County, Arkansas, to "put down" the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557287724
• ISBN13: 9781557287724
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"