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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 and five white men were killed. [ 4 ]
Jun 29, 2024 · A shooting incident that occurred at a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union escalated into mob violence on the part of the white people in Elaine and surrounding areas. Although the exact number is unknown, estimates of the number of African Americans killed by whites have ranged into the hundreds; five white people lost their ...
Dec 30, 2021 · Hundreds of Black men, women, and children had lost their lives during the Elaine Massacre. And yet, the only people who were charged with crimes related to the violence were Black residents. They had been blamed for killing the five white people who died — and for planning to kill far more.
The first six of the Elaine 12 were sentenced to death within minutes on November 3rd. The following day, five more men were sentenced to death, again, within minutes. On November 17th Ed Ware, secretary of the PFHUA’s Hoop Spur lodge, was sentenced to death, the last of the Elaine Twelve.
Amidst the violence, five whites died, but for those deaths, someone would have to be held accountable.
Sep 30, 2019 · The Forgotten History of America’s Worst Racial Massacre. Hundreds of black citizens were killed in Elaine, Ark., a century ago this week. Sept. 30, 2019. A memorial to those killed in the...
Sep 30, 2018 · 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 black sharecroppers.
