38. Historians Have Identified Over Twenty “Killing Fields”
The mobs of angry, hate-filled white men systematically rounded up and murdered entire families at a time. Because of the rural isolation of this small town in the Arkansas Delta, not many people at the time, or even now, were aware of the mass slaughter that occurred there.
But historians are taking a renewed interest in the Elaine Massacre and trying to understand better what really happened there. They have identified over 20 sites where African Americans were slaughtered en masse, places that they somberly refer to as “killing fields.”
