{"id":241,"date":"2010-08-31T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=241"},"modified":"2010-08-31T07:00:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T12:00:46","slug":"white-mans-heaven-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"White Man&#8217;s Heaven Released!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uapress\/4706539893\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Cover of White Man's Heaven by Kimberly Harper\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1278\/4706539893_264cabfd11.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of White Man's Heaven by Kimberly Harper\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitemansheaven.com\">White Man&#8217;s Heaven<\/a><\/em>, by Kimberly Harper, has been released more than a month early!<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=152\">previously covered here<\/a> on Historic Joplin, <em>White Man&#8217;s Heaven: The Lynching and Expulsion of Blacks in the Southern Ozarks<\/em>, is a non-fiction account of a string of violent episodes that occurred through Southwest Missouri and Harrison, Arkansas, between 1894 &#8211; 1909.\u00a0 Two chapters of the book are dedicated to the lynching of Thomas Gilyard that occurred in Joplin in April, 1903, which should be of interest to any who have a passion for Joplin&#8217;s past, both bright and dark.<\/p>\n<p>Buy a copy soon, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/White-Mans-Heaven-Lynching-Expulsion\/dp\/1557289417\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1283219952&amp;sr=8-1\">Amazon.com only has 5 copies left<\/a> as of 8\/30!\u00a0 You can also purchase copies from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uapress.com\/titles\/fa10\/harper.html\">University of Arkansas Press<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/White-Mans-Heaven\/Kimberly-Harper\/e\/9781557289414\/?itm=1&amp;USRI=White+Man%27s+Heaven\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 <em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Man&#8217;s Heaven, by Kimberly Harper, has been released more than a month early! As previously covered here on Historic Joplin, White Man&#8217;s Heaven: The Lynching and Expulsion of Blacks in the Southern Ozarks, is a non-fiction account of a string of violent episodes that occurred through Southwest Missouri and Harrison, Arkansas, between 1894 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[552,340,201],"tags":[1022,328,31,627,612,1023,1024,613,628,1021,626,719,1020],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}