Grif Stockley (1944-2023) authored several books, including Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919; Ruled by Race: Black/White Relations in Arkansas from Slavery to the Present; Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas; and Black Boys Burning: The 1959 Fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School, the latter two published 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.”
