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Elaine ist eine City im Phillips County, Arkansas, Vereinigte Staaten mit 556 Einwohnern (laut Volkszählung 2015). Bekannt wurde sie durch das Elaine Massacre von 1919. Durch Rassenunruhen wurden wahrscheinlich 237 Schwarze von weißen Mobs getötet.
Das Massaker von Elaine, auch als die Rassenunruhen von Elaine ( englisch Elaine Race Riot) bekannt, war ein Pogrom an der afroamerikanischen Bevölkerung in Elaine im amerikanischen Bundesstaat Arkansas, das Augenzeugen zufolge an die 200 Todesopfer forderte.
Elaine is a small town in Phillips County, Arkansas, United States, in the Arkansas Delta region of the Mississippi River. The population was 636 at the 2010 census .
The Elaine massacre occurred on September 30 – October 2, 1919, at Hoop Spur in the vicinity of Elaine in rural Phillips County, Arkansas where African Americans were organizing against peonage and abuses in tenant farming. As many as several hundred African Americans and five white men were killed. [4]
16. Juni 2023 · The name of Elaine (Phillips County) will always be linked with a race massacre that broke out in the fall of 1919, leaving scores of African Americans dead. Aside from this one memorable incident, the city is representative of life in the Delta region that includes eastern Arkansas.
- 0.51 square miles (2020 Census)
- 34º18’30″N 090º51’07″W
- 171 feet
- 509 (2020 Census)
30. Sept. 2019 · One hundred years ago this week, one of the worst episodes of racial violence in American history unfolded in Elaine, Ark., a small town on the Mississippi. Details remain difficult to verify.
The Elaine Museum and Richard Wright Civil Rights Center, located in Elaine, Arkansas, tells the history of the small delta town, from the Elaine Massacre of 1919 to the current day.
