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Tony Gwynn & Tony Gwynn Jr. standing next to Gwynn's film studio (portable TV with a VCR) that he utilized to watch all his televised at-bats. He was the first player to do so on a regular basis and pioneered this idea that every player utilizes this day (1990s)
The Elaine massacre occurred on September 30 – October 2, 1919, at Hoop Spur in the vicinity of Elaine in rural Phillips County, Arkansas, where African Americans were organizing against peonage and abuses in tenant farming. As many as several hundred African Americans were murdered and five white men were killed.[4] Estimates of deaths made in the immediate aftermath of the Elaine Massacre by eyewitnesses range from 50 to "more tha
n a hundred".[5] Walter Francis White, an NAACP attorney who visited Elaine shortly after the incident, stated "... twenty-five Negroes killed, although some place the Negro fatalities as high as one hundred".[6] More recent estimates in the 21st century of the number of Black people murdered during this violence are higher than estimates provided by the eyewitnesses, and have ranged into the hundreds.[3][2][7] The white mobs were aided by federal troops (requested by Arkansas governor Charles Hillman Brough) and local terrorist organizations.[8] Gov. Brough led a contingent of 583 US soldiers from Camp Pike, with a 12-gun machine-gun battalion.[7]
After the massacre, state officials concocted an elaborate cover-up, claiming that Black folks were planning an insurrection.[8] National newspapers repeated the falsehood that Black community members in Arkansas were staging an insurrection.[8] A New York Times headline read, "Planned Massacre of Whites Today",[11] and the Arkansas Gazette (the leading newspaper in Arkansas) wrote that Elaine was "a zone of negro insurrection".[8] Subsequent to this reporting, more than 100 African Americans were indicted, with 12 being sentenced to death by electrocution.[8] After a years-long legal battle by the NAACP, the 12 men were acquitted.[8]
Because of the widespread racial violence during the Red Summer of 1919, the Equal Justice Initiative of Montgomery, Alabama, classified the Black murders at Elaine as lynchings in its 2015 report on the lynching of African Americans in the South.[12]
Elaine massacre - Wikipedia
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