"Legacy of The Elaine 12, American Heroes," a symposium of events surrounding the Elaine Massacre, kicks off at 9:30 a.m. Friday morning, and marks the first event held at the Elaine Museum and Richard Wright Civil Rights Center at 313 College Ave. in Elaine (Phillips County).
September 2019 will be the 100th anniversary of what has come to be known as the Elaine massacre in Eastern Arkansas’s Phillips County. A century ago, white posses and U.S. soldiers shot and killed what may have been hundreds of African Americans, most of them tenant farmers, over a period of four days.