#tdih 1919 #RedSummer Black sharecroppers met in Elaine, Arkansas to organize for fair pay for cotton. More than 100 of them were massacred by white supremacists. 12 Black men were sentenced to death for the "riots." #terrorism #teachoutsidetextbook zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/elai…
Elaine Massacre 1919. Textbooks barely mention Red Summer, and when they do, they "downplay both racism and Black resistance, while distorting facts in a dangerous 'both sides' framing." Read "If We Knew Our History" essay below by @LadyOfSardines
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"The terrible 'crime' these men had committed was to organize their members into a union for the purpose of getting the market price for their cotton." -- Ida B. Wells in a booklet she wrote called "The Elaine Riot." Read primary doc in full online here: archive.org/details/TheArk…
The Encyclopedia of Arkansas provides detailed description with photos and primary docs of 1919 Elaine Massacre and subsequent trial of "Elaine 12" (Black men convicted for massacre by whites). Photo: Elaine 12 attorney Scipio Africanus Jones #tdih Read: encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/e…
Read about role of the @NAACP, Ida B Wells, and the Black press (including Chicago Defender) and white press during 1919 Elaine Massacre and trial of Elaine 12 at @BlackPastOnline here blackpast.org/african-americ…
Black WWI vets' "achievement and success actually provoked more rage and more vitriol than if they had utterly failed.” -- Adriane Lentz-Smith, author of "Freedom Struggles: African Americans and WWI" via
@SmithsonianMag #ElaineMassacre #tdih 1919 smithsonianmag.com/history/death-…
Teach about impact of 1919 #ElaineMassacre (and so many more) on economic rights and the legacy today of Black dispossession (of land, right to organize, businesses, schools). #Reparations See article & lesson ⬇️ by Linda Christensen of @RethinkSchools zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
The Elaine Massacre is one of countless massacres in U.S. history designed to suppress voting rights, land ownership, labor rights, education, and more of African Americans. Time to teach about the demand for reparations. See lesson for grades 7+ below.
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