About the Author

Matthew Hild earned a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His books deal with the New South, politics, labor, agriculture, race, and economics.

Reviews

Not only a unique contribution to Arkansas history but also, I think, a significant addition to what we know of protest movements nationally during the late nineteenth century.""- Carl H. Moneyhon, Professor of History, University of Arkansas–Little Rock; author of Arkansas and the New South, 1874–1929