Elaine Race Riot

When

30 Sep 1919

Kind

Riot

Coordinates

34.35° N, 90.83° W

Description

anti-black violence in Elaine, Arkansas in 1919

Participants

200

Anti-black violence in Arkansas in 1919

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. The white mobs were aided by federal troops and local terrorist organizations. Gov.

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• Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Elaine massacre: An estimated 100 to 800 African Americans are killed in Elaine, Arkansas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Massaker von Elaine, einem Pogrom an der afroamerikanischen Bevölkerung in Elaine, Arkansas, werden an die 200 Menschen getötet”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la aldea de Elaine (estado de Arkansas) ―en el marco del racismo en Estados Unidos que durará hasta 1968― sucede la Matanza de Elaine”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page