Newly discovered documents reveal what may have started Elaine Massacre 100 years ago [View all]

ELAINE, Ark. — In the fall of 2019, Arkansas remembered the 100-year anniversary of what historians call the largest mass terror lynchings in American history. It took place in the Delta farmlands of Phillips County, Arkansas.

For every one of those years, the facts surrounding the racial riot were seemingly nonexistent— lost or buried to protect the narrative of post-World War I America as positive and light.

However, from September 30 until October 7 in 1919, was anything but. Estimates from historians say that anywhere between 100 and 300 African-Americans were killed in what is now known at the Elaine Massacre.

Historians say black veterans returning from the Great War considered themselves American citizens more than before after fighting for their country overseas.

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