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Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 by Cherisse Jones-Branch is now available! The first major study to consider Black women’s activism in rural Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps foregrounds...
The University of Arkansas Press announces the forthcoming publication of American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching by Guy Lancaster. Lynching is often viewed as an narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused...
“Ken Barnes has skillfully produced a work that is accessible to a general audience and one that offers new insights for historians. An undeniable contribution to Arkansas and American history.”—Ben F. Johnson III The Ku Klux Klan established a significant foothold in...
The University of Arkansas Press announces the forthcoming publication of George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing's First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 by Jason Winders. In this work of sporting and social history we have a biography of Canadian-born, Boston-raised...
To celebrate Black History Month, the University of Arkansas Press is offering 40% off two books that explore African-American History in Arkansas. The first major study to consider Black women’s activism in rural Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps...
Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820–1860 by S. Charles Bolton has won the 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize. Like enslaved people all over the South, those in the Lower Mississippi Valley left home at night for clandestine parties or...
“Guy Lancaster has assembled in ten concise essays a sweeping examination of lynching in Arkansas from slavery to 1950. In doing so Bullets and Fire makes a major contribution to our understanding of the connection between repressive violence and the erection and...
Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps encourages a new consideration of Arkansas rural history by foregrounding Black women’s astute navigation of racial and gender politics as a means to uplift African Americans, develop opportunities for social mobility in...
The University of Arkansas Press is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914—1965, by Cherisse Jones-Branch. The book is the first major study to consider...
312 pages, HardcoverMuch has been written about the historical desegregation of Little Rock Central High School by nine African American students in 1957. History has been silent, however, about the students who desegregated Little Rock’s five public junior high...
