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Unequal Laws Unto a Savage Race
European Legal Traditions in Arkansas, 1686-1836
Häftad, 1985
246 kr
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Partly because its colonial settlements were tiny, remote, and inconsequential, the early history of Arkansas has been almost entirely neglected. Even Arkansas Post, the principal eighteenth-century settlement, served mainly as a temporary place of residence for trappers and voyageurs. It was also …
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The Story of Lester Young
Av Luc Delannoy
Häftad, 1993
336 kr
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The critic Norman Granz called tenor saxophonist Lester Young "the greatest musician I have heard on the instrument." Douglas Ramsey speaks of Young as "the gentle bedeviled genius whose vision of beauty found expression even though he was hounded throughout his life by nearly every demon the …
Breaking the Silence
The Little Rock Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, 1958–1963
Häftad, 1997
447 kr
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The Little Rock Central High School integration crisis did not end in1957 when President Eisenhower sent a portion of the first Airborne Division to protect nine black students. The turmoil was entering its second year in 1958 when Arkansas governor Orval Faubus invoked a hastily passed state law …
White Man's Heaven
The Lynching and Expulsion of Blacks in the Southern Ozarks, 1894-1909
Häftad, 2012
334 kr
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White Man's Heaven is the first book to investigate the lynching and expulsion of African Americans in the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kimberly Harper shows how an established tradition of extralegal violence and the rapid political, economic, …
