| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 325 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Pierce City: "we were once slaves" -- Pierce City: "white man's heaven" -- Pierce City: the lark and Godley trials -- Joplin: "have mercy on my soul" -- Joplin: "hurrah for Hickory Bill" -- Springfield: "the devil was just as good a friend to God" -- Springfield: "a slumbering volcano" -- Springfield: "the Easter offering" -- Springfield: "they certainly had not the bearing of deacons" -- Springfield: "murder in the air" -- Harrison: "their voices filled the air" -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
This book is a thorough investigation into the lynching and expulsion of African Americans in the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author explores events in the towns of Monett, Pierce City, Joplin, and Springfield, Missouri, and Harrison, Arkansas, to show how post-Civil War vigilantism, an established tradition of extralegal violence, and the rapid political, economic, and social change of the New South era happened independently but were also part of a larger, interconnected regional experience. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lynching -- Missouri -- History.
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Lynching. |
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Missouri. |
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History. |
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Racism -- Missouri -- History.
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Racism. |
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African Americans -- Violence against -- Missouri -- History.
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African Americans -- Violence against. |
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African Americans -- Missouri -- Social conditions.
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African Americans. |
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Social conditions. |
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African Americans -- Relocation -- Missouri -- History.
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African Americans -- Relocation. |
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Missouri -- Race relations -- History.
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Race relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Racism. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Harper, Kimberly, 1982- White man's heaven. Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2010022355 |
| ISBN |
9781610754569 (electronic book) |
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1610754565 (electronic book) |
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1557289417 |
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9781557289414 |
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9781557289841 |
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1557289840 |
| Sudoc No. |
HI.F 3/178-8:W 54/2010 |
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