Newly discovered documents reveal what may have started Elaine Massacre 100 years ago

[LiberalArkie]

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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https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/black-history/elaine-massacre/91-2be40696-2da2-4aac-8806-df3959194781

[Karadeniz]

1. We whites can never repay other races for all the harms we've caused.

[LiberalArkie]

2. 1 found ledger flipped history 180 degrees

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. Tragically, there are dozens of these stories just waiting to be uncovered.

Rosewood, FL -- January 1923 is another example.

White woman tells husband that a black man accosted and attacked her (It was her white lover.). Husband grabs gun, gathers other white men with him. Group becomes screaming ugly mob of white men (augmented by the local KKK) bent on violence. Residents of Rosewood (all Black except for one white family) are murdered where they stand, homes and businesses are burned to the ground. Rosewood is destroyed.

I think we will read many more of these stories in the near future.