41. The Soldiers Detained African Americans In Stockades
According to the newspaper Helena World, based in a town near Elaine, “The present trouble with the Negroes in Phillips County is not a race riot. It is a deliberately planned insurrection of the Negroes against the whites directed by an organization known as the ‘Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America,’ established for the purpose of banding Negroes together for the killing of white people.”
None of the members of the murderous mobs were apprehended for what they did. But to make sure that a black uprising did not occur, the soldiers who came to Elaine imprisoned hundreds of African Americans in stockades.
