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The Arkansas race riot. Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931. Account of the “Elaine [Arkansas] Race Riot”. The Elaine massacre or Elaine race riot, occurred on September 30–October 1, 1919 at Hoop Spur in the vicinity of Elaine in rural Phillips County, Arkansas.
Sep 20, 2013 · The Arkansas Race Riot. Paperback – September 20, 2013. The press dispatches of October 1, 1919, heralded the news that another race riot had taken place the night before in Elaine, Ark., and that it was started by Negroes who had killed some white officers in an altercation.
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The press dispatches of October 1, 1919, heralded the news that another race riot had taken place the night before in Elaine, Ark., and that it was started by Negroes who had killed some white officers in an altercation. Later on the country was told that the white people of Phillips County had risen against the Negroes who started this riot and ha...
The terrible crime these men had committed was to organize their members into a union for the purpose of getting the market price for their cotton, to buy land of their own and to employ a lawyer to get settlements of their accounts with their white landlords. Cotton was selling for more than ever before in their lives. These Negroes believed their...
Tuesday, September 30th, the people gathered in their church at Hoop Spur to hold a meeting of the lodge. The place was crowded with men, women and children. Those who hadn't paid dues and become members were anxious to do so. A peaceful law-abiding hard-working group in their own church, attending strictly to their own business, about two hundred ...
In this chapter is given the statements of these earnest, hard-working God-fearing men whose only ambition was to be good citizens and get on in the world. Ed Ware, who was secretary of the Progressive Farmers' Household Union, had 120 acres in cultivation. He owned a Ford car and while the crops were laid by, drove his car daily to Helena, thirty ...
Billy Archdale, manager of Mrs. Jackson's farm at Elaine, Ark., was a leader in this movement against colored people. He had rented this farm for three years and then hired colored people to work it on shares. Last year he started with thirteen Negro families on the place. By the time the crops were "laid by" he had driven all but four of them off....
The mob which killed Jim Miller, president of the Hoop Spur lodge of the Farmers' Union, and his family, then burned their bodies, also arrested and jailed other officers and members of this union and thus stamped it out of existence had no such excuse in the murder of the four Johnston brothers of Helena, Ark. Yet they too paid with their lives th...
When the Phillips County Circuit Court convened in Helena, Ark., the following indictment by the Grand Jury was made: Charley Pratt, having first been duly sworn, was called as a witness by the State and testified as follows;
It was on this testimony that Frank Hicks, Ed Ware and the other ten men were sentenced to die in the electric chair. After agitation by lovers of justice against this unjust finding, able counsel in Little Rock was engaged to make motion for a new trial and the following is the exact wording of that motion: Defendant, Frank Hicks, moves and prays ...
So much has been charged against this Union which those Negro farmers had organized among themselves, that a reprint of its constitution and bylaws ought to satisfy the most skeptical that the members were not organizing to kill white people. Every word and letter in this little volume is here given just as it appears in a copy which was given to e...
Economic justice reached its awful climax in 1919 in the final answer to two appeals made by working men, both groups seeking through peaceful appeal to win better wage and working conditions; both presenting their grievances through chosen representatives, one to be rewarded by the President of the United States with patient hearing and final succ...
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Books. The Arkansas Race Riot. The press dispatches of October 1, 1919, heralded the news that another race riot had taken place the night before in Elaine, Ark., and that it was started...
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May 20, 2023 · Ida B. Wells-Barnett. The Arkansas Race Riot (1920) Kindle Edition. by B. Wells-Barnett, Ida (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. See all formats and editions. Kindle. $4.99 Read with Our Free App. "Elaine, Arkansas became the scene of one of the most violent racial conflicts the country had ever to that time experienced."
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Jun 3, 2023 · “The Arkansas Race Riot” is a 1920 pamphlet that constitutes a critical source of information about the Elaine Massacre of 1919. Written by famed anti- lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the pamphlet disputes the narrative offered by white political and economic elites in Phillips County —namely, that local African Americans had ...
