Blood in their eyes : the Elaine race massacres of 1919 /
"In late September 1919, black sharecroppers met in Elaine, Arkansas, to protest unfair settlements for their cotton crops from white plantation owners. Local law enforcement broke up their meeting, and the next day a thousand white men from the Delta - and troops of the U.S. Army - converged o...
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Format: | Government Document Book |
Language: | English |
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Fayetteville :
University of Arkansas Press,
2001.
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