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Sep 30, 2019 · The following morning, Gov. Charles H. Brough of Arkansas and a World War I veteran, Col. Issac Jencks, personally escorted 583 soldiers, including a machine gun battalion, from Camp Pike in ...
Sep 30, 2018 · Elaine, Arkansas Riot (1919) One of the last of the major riots of the “Red Summer” of 1919, the so-called race riot in Elaine, Arkansas was in fact a racial massacre. Though exact numbers are unknown, it is estimated that over 200 African Americans were killed, along with five whites, during the white hysteria of a pending insurrection of ...
The Elaine Race Massacre began on September 30, 1919 and lasted until October 7, 1919. The catalyst for the massacre was the formation of a local chapter of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America (PFHUA) in Phillips County. The PFHUA was established in Winchester, a small community located in Drew County, Arkansas, by a local ...
The Elaine Museum and Richard Wright Civil Rights Center is located in Elaine, Arkansas, in the midst of the vast agricultural land of Phillips County. Most well-known for the Elaine Massacre of 1919, in which an unknown number of Black men, women, and children were murdered indiscriminately, the town and surrounding areas are hallowed ground.
Sep 12, 2019 · In Elaine, Arkansas, white mobs in the Elaine Massacre caused some of the most blood spilled. Death estimates run from 100 to hundreds of murdered black residents, the largest number in the “Red ...
Jun 16, 2023 · The name of Elaine (Phillips County) will always be linked with a race massacre that broke out in the fall of 1919, leaving scores of African Americans dead. Aside from this one memorable incident, the city is representative of life in the Delta region that includes eastern Arkansas. When Arkansas became a state in 1836, the area of present-day ...
The Elaine Museum will provide an insight into the rich and complex histories of the Arkansas Delta through this landscape and the historical lens of the Massacre of 1919. Source: Arkansas State Archives. The Elaine Museum and Richard Wright Civil Rights Center, located in Elaine, Arkansas, tells the history of the small delta town, from the ...
