Historydraft LogoHistorydraft Logo
Historydraft
beta
Historydraft Logo
Historydraft
beta

Red Summer - Elaine massacre

Time: Tuesday Sep 30, 1919

Place: Elaine, Phillips County, Arkansas, U.S.

Details: On September 30, a massacre broke out against blacks in Elaine, Phillips County, Arkansas, being distinct for having occurred in the rural South rather than a city. The Elaine massacre or the Elaine race riot occurred on September 30–October 1, 1919, at Hoop Spur in the vicinity of Elaine in rural Phillips County, Arkansas. Although official records of the time state that eleven black men and five white men were killed, estimates of the actual number of black people who were killed range from 100 to 237. The white mobs were aided by federal troops (requested by Arkansas governor Charles Brough) and vigilante militias like the Ku Klux Klan.

Related

Near

Mamie Till at Emmett's funeral
Mamie Till-Mamie's birth
Wednesday Nov 23, 1921 - Webb, Mississippi, U.S

On This Day - 30 September

disasters
Disasters with highest death tolls-587 Antioch Earthquake
Sunday Sep 30, 587 - Byzantine Empire (now Turkey)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart-Mozart's last opera
Friday Sep 30, 1791 - Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna
The Second Boer War
Second Boer War-Moedwil Battle
Monday Sep 30, 1901 - near Swartruggens, North West Province, South Africa
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill-Chamberlain signed up to the Munich Agreement
Friday Sep 30, 1938 - Munich, Germany
World War II
World War II-Munich Agreement
Friday Sep 30, 1938 - Munich, Germany

September 1919

Irish War of Independence
Irish War of Independence-An unofficial government policy of reprisals began
Sep, 1919 - Ireland
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler-"My Political Awakening"
Friday Sep 12, 1919 - Germany
Photograph taken showing the body of Will Brown after being burned by a white lynch mob - Red Summer
Red Summer-Ephram Gethers was shot
Sunday Sep 21, 1919 - New York City, New York, U.S.
Photograph taken showing the body of Will Brown after being burned by a white lynch mob - Red Summer
Red Summer-Armed resistance movement
Sep, 1919 - U.S.
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey-Black Star Line company had accumulated $50,000
Sep, 1919 - U.S.

1919

Stalin's Image
Joseph Stalin-Bolsheviks won the War
1919 - Russia
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide-Organised Courts-martial
1919 - Istanbul, Turkey (then Ottoman Empire)
Louis Armstrong Image
Louis Armstrong-Kid Ory's band
1919 - New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey-International League for Darker People
Thursday Jan 2, 1919 - U.S.
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill-Lloyd George moved Churchill to the War Office
Jan, 1919 - England, United Kingdom
<