{"product_id":"black-boys-burning-the-1959-fire-at-the-arkansas-negro-boys-industrial-school-paperback","title":"Black Boys Burning: The 1959 Fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGrif Stockley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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 14, after a judge for juveniles found him guilty of stealing from a neighborhood store owner. To her horror, Lindsey was not among the forty-eight boys who had clawed their way through the windows of the dormitory to safety. Instead, he was among the twenty-one boys between the ages of thirteen and seventeen who burned to death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eBlack Boys Burning\u003c\/i\u003e presents a focused explanation of how systemic poverty perpetuated by white supremacy sealed the fate of those students. A careful telling of the history of the school and fire, the book provides readers a fresh understanding of the broad implications of white supremacy. Grif Stockley's research adds to an evolving understanding of the Jim Crow South, Arkansas's history, the lawyers who capitalized on this tragedy, and the African American victims. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In hindsight, the disaster at Wrightsville could have been predicted. Immediately after the fire, an unsigned editorial in the \u003ci\u003eArkansas Democrat\u003c\/i\u003e noted long-term deterioration, including the wiring, of the buildings. After the Central High School desegregation crisis in 1957, the boys' deaths eighteen months later were once again an embarrassment to Arkansas. The fire and its circumstances should have provoked southerners to investigate the realities of their \"separate but equal institutions.\" However, white supremacy ruled the investigations, and the grand jury declared the event to be an anomaly.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrif Stockley\u003c\/b\u003e (1944-2023) authored several books, including \u003ci\u003eBlood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRuled by Race: Black\/White Relations in Arkansas from Slavery to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eDaisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003epublished by University Press of Mississippi. Stockley was a recipient of the Arkansas Historical Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for \"pioneering investigations of Arkansas's racial history.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 212\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 19, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53755509997901,"sku":"9781496834522","price":65.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/SzQ3bzRxV1VvWnF2bEZkWGNPYWZhQT09.webp?v=1776719163","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/black-boys-burning-the-1959-fire-at-the-arkansas-negro-boys-industrial-school-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}