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  • Black Boys Burning

    The 1959 Fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School

    by Grif Stockley ...
    On the morning of March 5, 1959, Luvenia Long was listening to gospel music when a news bulletin interrupted her radio program. Fire had engulfed the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville, thirteen miles outside of Little Rock. Her son Lindsey had been confined there since January 14, after a judge for juveniles found him guilty of stealing from a neighborhood store owner. To her ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Blood in Their Eyes

    The Elaine Massacre of 1919

    by Grif Stockley, Brian K. Mitchell, Guy Lancaster ...
    On September 30, 1919, local law enforcement in rural Phillips County, Arkansas, attacked black sharecroppers at a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America. The next day, hundreds of white men from the Delta, along with US Army troops, converged on the area “with blood in their eyes.” What happened next was one of the deadliest incidents of racial violence in the history ... Read more

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  • Daisy Bates

    Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas

    by Grif Stockley ...
    Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
    Daisy Bates (1914–1999) is renowned as the mentor of the Little Rock Nine, the first African Americans to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. For guiding the Nine through one of the most tumultuous civil rights crises of the 1950s, she was selected as Woman of the Year in Education by the Associated Press in 1957 and was the only woman invited to speak at the Lincoln Memorial ... Read more

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