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Black Boys Burning
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 …
Daisy Bates
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 …
Blood in Their Eyes
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 …
Ruled by Race
Winner of the 2010 Booker Worthen Literary Prize and the 2009 Ragsdale Award.From the Civil War to Reconstruction, the Redeemer period, Jim Crow, and the modern civil rights era to …