Grand Prairie Historical Society Bulletin
Title | Grand Prairie Historical Society Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | Grand Prairie Historical Society |
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Release | 1983 |
Genre | Arkansas |
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Grand Prairie Historical Bulletin Index
Title | Grand Prairie Historical Bulletin Index PDF eBook |
Author | Grand Prairie Historical Society |
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Release | 2010 |
Genre | Arkansas |
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Grand Prairie Historical Bulletin
Title | Grand Prairie Historical Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | Grand Prairie Historical Society |
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Release | 2017 |
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Covers 1958-2017 and includes .pdf files of every issue published and a name index in three parts. Supersedes any prior editions.
Research Guide to the Historical Bulletin
Title | Research Guide to the Historical Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Mosenthin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 5 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Arkansas |
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Historical Bulletin
Title | Historical Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | Grand Prairie Historical Society |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Saint Charles (Ark.) |
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Genealogist's Address Book. 6th Edition
Title | Genealogist's Address Book. 6th Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Petty Bentley |
Publisher | Genealogical Publishing Com |
Pages | 816 |
Release | 2009-02 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780806317960 |
This book is the answer to the perennial question, "What's out there in the world of genealogy?" What organizations, institutions, special resources, and websites can help me? Where do I write or phone or send e-mail? Once again, Elizabeth Bentley's Address Book answers these questions and more. Now in its 6th edition, The Genealogist's Address Book gives you access to all the key sources of genealogical information, providing names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, websites, names of contact persons, and other pertinent information for more than 27,000 organizations, including libraries, archives, societies, government agencies, vital records offices, professional bodies, publications, research centers, and special interest groups.
Caste and Class
Title | Caste and Class PDF eBook |
Author | Fon Louise Gordon |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820331309 |
In this history of African American society from the end of Reconstruction to the end of World War I, Fon Louise Gordon focuses on dissent within Arkansas's black community. In particular, Gordon studies friction between elites and the agricultural and laboring classes over ideological and procedural aspects of their response to the caste strictures of Jim Crow. Because opinions on how to oppose segregation and disfranchisement ran along class lines, Gordon is also able to offer one of the most discerning portrayals to date of that era's black society. It was, Gordon demonstrates, a society apart from mainstream America, yet similar in its stratification. Through individual profiles and numerous examples, Gordon shows how class within the black community was determined by skin color, family background, and education in combination with such indicators of status as occupation and religious affiliation. At the same time, Caste and Class tells two concurrent and closely linked stories. One story is of the rise, growing self-absorption, and finally flagging influence of Arkansas's first black middle and upper classes. Primarily urban, professional, and conservative, these elites were relatively insulated from white oppression and supported the conciliatory race policies of Booker T. Washington. The other story Gordon tells is of the long, arduous emergence of the working classes, which was brought on in part by an exposure to a wider range of opportunities during and after World War I and the birth of the New Negro Movement. Overwhelmingly rural, these blacks were isolated from black middle-class culture and values and were oriented toward agitation and protest. In general, Gordon shows, the upper classes sought stability and prosperity apart from the white power structure, while the lower classes sought to improve their lives in spite of it. Within the context of national trends and events, Gordon discusses such topics as the myth and reality of Arkansas as a promised land of racial tolerance, the antebellum roots of black stratified society, the formation of Arkansas's all-black communities, and the emigration of the lower classes to Africa and the industrial North and Midwest. Caste and Class moves beyond monolithic views of white oppression and black victimization to portray African American community-building in the era that saw the collapse of agriculture as the dominant way of life for African Americans.