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Brutal Facts About Arkansas’ Elaine Massacre

Red Summer - Chicago race riot of 1919

24. Shots Were Fired

Elaine sits on the border with Mississippi. usslave.blogspot.co.uk

Nobody knows who fired the first shots. What we do know is that a car full of white supremacists parked outside the church and threatened the people inside. Two white men arrived on the scene and engaged in a firefight with the armed guards who were protecting the union members inside the church.

By the time the episode ended, one white man was dead, and another one was wounded. Word quickly got to the sheriff’s office, and before the night was over, a mob of hundreds of white men assembled to enact vigilante justice for the two whites that had been killed outside of the union meeting.

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