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#OTD Sept 30, 1919: The Elaine Massacre takes place. During what was known as the #RedSummer, Black Arkansas sharecroppers, meeting to unionize for better working conditions & pay. White landowners raided the meeting killing hundreds.
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#OTD Sept 30, 1919: The Elaine Massacre takes place. During what was known as the #RedSummer, Black Arkansas sharecroppers were meeting to discuss forming a union & demand better working conditions & pay. White landowners raided the meeting killing hundreds.
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#OTD Sept 30, 1919: The Elaine Massacre takes place. During what was known as the #RedSummer, Black Arkansas sharecroppers meeting to unionize were killed by white landowners. Hundreds were massacred.

“There’s still racial healing that needs to take place”
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