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Charles Hillman Brough: a Biography (c)
A dignified man with a Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University, Brough was also known as a brilliant orator, a college professor with a photographic memory, an enthusiastic Baptist, yet a confirmed racist, unable to leave parts of the Old South behind.
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, V. 17
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Blood in Their Eyes
On September 30, 1919, local law enforcement in rural Phillips County, Arkansas, attacked black sharecroppers at a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America. The next day, hundreds of white men from the Delta, along with US Army troops, converged on the area “with blood in their eyes.” What happened next was one of the deadliest incidents of racial violence in the history of the United States, leaving a legacy of trauma and silence that has persisted for more than a century. In the wake of the massacre, the NAACP and Little Rock lawyer Scipio Jones spearheaded legal action that revolutionized due process in America. The first edition of Grif Stockley’s Blood in Their Eyes, published in 2001, brought renewed attention to the Elaine Massacre and sparked valuable new studies on racial violence and exploitation in Arkansas and beyond. With contributions from fellow historians Brian K. Mitchell and Guy Lancaster, this revised edition draws from recently uncovered source material and explores in greater detail the actions of the mob, the lives of those who survived the massacre, and the regime of fear and terror that prevailed under Jim Crow.
(The New and Improved Version) Coffee Shop Tidbits
This clever book features witticisms and cartoons by award-winning Milton Davis and his award-winning cartoonist friend Foy Lisenby. It is an updated collection of sarcastic one-liners that the author compiled and is a revision of his previous book, Coffee Shop Tidbits. His new book features cartoons, more drawings, and many more jokes with some offering a philosophical slant. With his sense of humor, cartooning just seemed to come naturally. Davis has published several cartoon books. At one time, he produced weekly cartoons for over twenty newspapers under the title “Toad Suck Country.” Visit his website at www.toadsucktidbits.com. After retiring several years ago, he started the daily cartoon, “Toad Suck Tidbits.” Since the Toad Suck story is little known outside the Faulkner County region of Arkansas, he published it on the Internet as “Coffee Shop Tidbits.” This book is an updated collection of many of those daily cartoon quotations. “Milt Davis humor startles me, plays tricks on me, and the person I confront in his humor is a Conway treasure.” – Norbert O. Schedler, Ph.D.
Coffee Shop Tidbits
Milton Davis grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he graduated from Little Rock High School and Little Rock Junior College. After serving in the USAF in Korea, he continued his college career at the University of Central Arkansas, graduating with a degree in business. The author and cartoonist feels he has been lucky in many ways, including marrying Claudia Jackson sixty years ago, having four children, six grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. He feels fortunate to have had a career as a financial advisor with a firm having a “Class A” reputation for doing the right thing for its clients. Although Milton has a number of hobbies, with his sense of humor, cartooning just seems t...
Agenda for Reform
When Winthrop Rockefeller was elected governor of Arkansas in 1966, he became the first Republican to hold the governor's office since Reconstruction. Cathy Kunzinger Urwin examines Rockefeller's tenure by looking beyond his immediate successes and failures to the broader, dramatic changes that marked the era. Rockefeller helped break up the political machines that had controlled Arkansas politics for almost a hundred years, made lasting contributions in the areas of prison reform and civil rights, and obliged the Democratic Party to find Dale Bumpers, a young, bright, progressive gubernatorial candidate to oppose him in 1970.
The Evolution Controversy in America
A comprehensive intellectual history of America’s century-old debate over teaching evolution in public schools. For well over a century, the United States has witnessed a prolonged debate over the teaching of organic evolution in the nation’s public schools. The controversy that began with the publication of Darwin’s Origin of the Species had by the 1920s expanded to include theologians, politicians, and educators. The Scopes trial of 1925 provided the growing antievolution movement with significant publicity and led to a decline in the teaching of evolution. In The Evolution Crisis in America, George E. Webb details how efforts to improve science education in the wake of Sputnik resur...
Arkansas Politics and Government
Published a decade and a half after the late Diane D. Blair s influential book Arkansas Politics and Government, this freshly revised edition builds on her work, which highlighted both the decades of failure by Arkansas's government to live up to the state s motto of Regnat Populus ( The People Rule ) and the positive trends of democracy. Since the first edition, Arkansas has seen the two-term U.S. presidency of a native son, the retirement of players who defined the state s politics in the modern era, the further realignment of the state s electorate, the passage of the nation s most extreme legislative term limits, the complete overhaul of the state s court system, and the declaration that...
Territorial Ambition
Both modern historians and early nineteenth-century observers have emphasized the wild and picturesque aspects of the Arkansas Territory, suggesting that the settlers here were more preoccupied with indolence or brawling than with economic progress. This study, first published in 1993, demonstrates that despite all its frontier roughness, Arkansas was characterized by a restless ambition that transformed the area from frontier and subsistence living to a highly productive agricultural society. This ambition – with its brutal Indian removal and expansion of slave labor – rendered Arkansas more similar to its southern neighbors than contemporary and modern portrayals would make it seem.
Freedom in the World
"Freedom House's survey [of freedom] is the most systematic, most comprehensive, and most reliable survey of the individual's status in the world's political systems. Freedom in the World provides an invaluable baseline in assessing the significance of world events." -Robert L. Bartley, Editor of The Wall Street Journal Freedom in the World is an institutional effort by Freedom House to monitor the progress and decline of political rights and civil liberties in 192 nations and 17 related and disputed territories. These year-end reviews of freedom began in 1955, when they were called the Balance Sheet of Freedom and, still later, the Annual Survey of the Progress of Freedom. This program was ...
