Blacks were slaughtered by whites in an episode forgotten by history books
American streets ran with blood in 1919. In the small town of Elaine, Arkansas, racial tensions turned brutally violent after African-American sharecroppers tried to unionize. A staggering 237 people were estimated to be hunted down and killed in what is now known as the Elaine Massacre. The bloodbath made its way all the way up to the United States Supreme Court. This is “Dark History”
https://nypost.com/video/an-estimat...dren-were-slaughtered-in-the-elaine-massacre/
Twelve men were sentenced to die in the immediate aftermath of the massacre. The NAACP represented the men on appeal and successfully got their death sentences overturned, six by the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1921 and the others by the United States Supreme Court in 1925.
American streets ran with blood in 1919. In the small town of Elaine, Arkansas, racial tensions turned brutally violent after African-American sharecroppers tried to unionize. A staggering 237 people were estimated to be hunted down and killed in what is now known as the Elaine Massacre. The bloodbath made its way all the way up to the United States Supreme Court. This is “Dark History”
https://nypost.com/video/an-estimat...dren-were-slaughtered-in-the-elaine-massacre/
Twelve men were sentenced to die in the immediate aftermath of the massacre. The NAACP represented the men on appeal and successfully got their death sentences overturned, six by the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1921 and the others by the United States Supreme Court in 1925.
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