Elaine Arkansas Archives - Institute of the Black World 21st Century

A dozen Black men were convicted of murder by all-white juries in connection with the 1919 massacre in Elaine, Ark. Above, defendants S.A. Jones, Ed Hicks, Frank Hicks, Frank Moore, J.C. Knox, Ed Coleman and Paul Hall with their attorney at the state penitentiary in Little Rock in 1925 after the Supreme Court overturned their convictions.

In 2 U.S. cities haunted by race massacres, facing the past is painful and divisive

By IBW21Editors' Choice, Reparations

By Scott Neuman, NPR — Shortly after going to work for the Tulsa Historical Society in 2001, Michelle Place recalls historian Richard Warner hefting a large cardboard box atop her…

December 12, 2022

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Eugene “Butch” Flenaugh, Jr., on his farm in Arkansas.

Black farmers in Arkansas still seek justice a century after the Elaine massacre

By IBW21News & Current Affairs

The long shadow of systemic racism continues to harm generations of Black agricultural communities that face entrenched economic obstacles to success. By Wesley Brown, Civil Eats — Eugene “Butch” Flenaugh,…

August 1, 2022

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The Daily Record, the only African American newspaper in Wilmington, N.C., was set ablaze as the Wilmington insurrection of 1898 began.

Tulsa isn’t the only race massacre you were never taught in school. Here are others.

By IBW21Commentaries/Opinions

By Gillian Brockell, The Washington Post — With President Biden commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre Tuesday, many Americans are learning for the first time about the nation’s long history of racist rampages, particularly during (but not limited to) the period from the 1870s to the 1920s — considered by many a nadir in the fight for Black civil rights. This new awareness has prompted calls from many,…

June 7, 2021

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National Groups Continue to Aid Descendants of Elaine Massacre

By IBW21NAARC News, News & Current Affairs, Press Releases / Statements, Reparations

Second Contribution Made To Support the Demand for Reparations Dr. Ron Daniels, Convener of the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) announced today that two national reparatory justice groups have…

March 26, 2021

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Living in the Age of the White Mob

By IBW21Editors' Choice

By Victor Luckerson— For most of the hundred and fifty-six years since the Civil War, white mobs have had free rein over American society. They burned Black schools during Reconstruction,…

January 28, 2021

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