Grif Stockley: 2 books
Blood in Their Eyes
The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Winner of the 2002 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
American Association of State and Local History Award 2003
In late September 1919, black sharecroppers met to protest unfair settlements for their cotton crops from white plantation owners. Local law enforcement broke up the union's meeting,...
Black Boys Burning
The 1959 Fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
On the morning of March 5, 1959, Luvenia Long was listening to gospel music when a news bulletin interrupted her radio program. Fire had engulfed the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville, thirteen miles outside of Little Rock. Her son Lindsey had been confined there since January...