Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction Guy Lancaster 3
Chapter 1 "Doubtless Guilty": Lynching and Slaves in Antebellum Arkansas Kelly Houston Jones 17
Chapter 2 "At the Hands of a Person or Persons Unknown": The Nature of Lynch Mobs in Arkansas Nancy Snell Griffith 35
Chapter 3 A Lynching State: Arkansas in the 1890s Randy Finley 61
Chapter 4 The Clarendon Lynching of 1898: The Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender Richard Buckelew 87
Chapter 5 Thirteen Dead at Saint Charles: Arkansas's Most Lethal Lynching and the Abrogation of Equal Protection Vincent Vinikas 103
Chapter 6 "Through Death, Hell and the Grave": Lynching and Antilynching Efforts in Arkansas, 1901-1939 Todd E. Lewis 131
Chapter 7 Before John Carter: Lynching and Mob Violence in Pulaski County, 1882-1906 Guy Lancaster 167
Chapter 8 Stories of a Lynching: Accounts of John Carter, 1927 Stephanie Harp 195
Chapter 9 "Working Slowly but Surely and Quietly": The Arkansas Council of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, 1930-1941 Cherisse Jones-Branch 223
Chapter 10 Holding the Line: The Arkansas Congressional Delegation and the Fight over a Federal Antilynching Law William H. Pruden III 239
Contributors 261
Notes 263
Index 329