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Black boys burning : the 1959 fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School / Grif Stockley.
Van Pelt Library HV9105.A82 S76 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stockley, Grif, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School (Wrightsville, Ark.)--Fire, 1959.
- Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School (Wrightsville, Ark.).
- Race discrimination--Arkansas--History--20th century.
- Race discrimination.
- Juvenile justice, Administration of--Arkansas--History--20th century.
- Juvenile justice, Administration of.
- Segregation in education--Arkansas--History--20th century.
- Segregation in education.
- History.
- Arkansas.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 194 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017]
- Contents:
- 1 The Charred Remains of Children 3
- 2 The Second Most Powerful Governor 22
- 3 Explaining the Fire 38
- 4 White Supremacy 58
- 5 How Things Work 73
- 6 Not Business as Usual 91
- 7 Us versus Them 102
- 8 Hanging Together 115
- 9 Grand Jury 139
- 10 Lessons Learned and Not Learned 149.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Stockley, Grif. Black boys burning.
- ISBN:
- 9781496812698
- 1496812697
- OCLC:
- 974796055
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