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A Place at the Table: Hot Springs and the GI Revolt 《餐桌上的一席之地:温泉与GI起义

Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government, 2nd Edition Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.34053/parry2019.riapag2.3

Patsy Hawthorn Ramsey

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Orval E. Faubus: OUt of Socialism into Realism 奥瓦尔·e·福伯斯:从社会主义走向现实主义

Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government, 2nd Edition Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.2307/40030925

R. Reed

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Keeping Hope Alive A Case Study of the Continuing Argument for Ratification of the ERA 保持希望——对批准《区域战争协定》的持续争论的个案研究

Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government, 2nd Edition Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.34053/parry2019.riapag2.18

Lindsley Armstrong Smith

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Low Villains and Wickedness in High Places: Race and Class in the Elaine Race Riots 低级恶棍和高层的邪恶:伊莱恩种族骚乱中的种族和阶级

Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government, 2nd Edition Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.34053/parry2019.riapag2.2

J. Whayne

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The Antievolution Law: Church and State in Arkansas 反进化论法:阿肯色州的教会与州

Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government, 2nd Edition Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.34053/parry2019.riapag2.1

Cal Ledbetter, Jr.

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“The Great Negro State of the Country”? Black Legislators in Arkansas 1973–2000 "伟大的黑人之州"1973-2000年阿肯色州黑人议员

Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government, 2nd Edition Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.34053/parry2019.riapag2.6

Janine A. Parry, W. H. Miller

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The Big Three of Late Twentieth-Century Arkansas Politics Dale Bumpers, Bill Clinton, and David Pryor 20世纪末阿肯色州政治三巨头戴尔·邦珀斯、比尔·克林顿和大卫·普赖尔

Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government, 2nd Edition Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.34053/parry2019.riapag2.10

D. Blair

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A Crime Unfit to Be Named Arkansas and Sodomy 《阿肯色之罪》和鸡奸

Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government, 2nd Edition Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.34053/parry2019.riapag2.17

W. B. Thompson

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Noblesse Oblige and Practical Politics Winthrop Rockefeller and the Civil Rights Movement 贵族义务和实际政治温斯洛普·洛克菲勒和民权运动

Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government, 2nd Edition Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.34053/parry2019.riapag2.9

Cathy Kunzinger Urwin

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