Whayne is a professor of history at the U of A and author, coauthor or editor of 11 books. Her area of interest is in Arkansas history, Southern history, race relations, agriculture and the modern plantation.
The Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture Series welcomes multimedia artist Mickalene Thomas on Nov. 17 in partnership with U of A’s School of Art and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
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The 1919 Elaine massacre in which white mobs killed an unknown number of Black farmers in Phillips County has finally begun to receive the attention it deserves from historians. The exact number of people murdered that fall in the cotton fields of the Arkansas Delta will never be known. Their story, however, must not be forgotten.
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