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Jeannie Whayne
University of Arkansas
While growing up in northeastern Arkansas during the 1950s
and 1960s, Jeannie Whayne witnessed a transformation that
prompted her lifelong absorption in the history of twentieth-century
plantation agriculture and race relations. Her first book
placed the creation of the interracial Southern Tenant Farmers
Union, founded near her childhood home, in the context of
the area’s history. Currently professor of history
and chair of the history department at the University of
Arkansas, she is finishing a book on a sixty-thousand-acre
Arkansas plantation and launching research on an environmental
study of the lower Mississippi River Valley.
Lecture topics:
- Forging a Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Making
of a Post-Civil War Southern Plantation
- Tripping Toward Katrina: One Hundred Years of Flood
Control along the Mississippi River Valley
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: African American
Farm Agents
- Recreating the World of the Homesteaders
- The Rural Dimension of the Long Civil Rights Struggle
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