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'Elaine'

Army bringing farmers to town

Faulty history: A historian’s critique of a new documentary on the Elaine Massacre

One can demand a better tomorrow without distorting the historical record to manufacture a better yesterday.
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Army bringing farmers to town

Elaine Museum and Richard Wright Civil Rights Center to be dedicated Friday

"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).
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Army bringing farmers to town

To Those Known and Unknown: The Elaine Massacre Memorial

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.
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