52. Some Still Believe The Massacre Was A Legitimate Means To Quell An Insurrection
The rural South is still plagued with racial tensions, which have come to fever pitches in cities like Ferguson, where new riots erupted over the failure to convict a police officer in the shooting death of an African American man.
In and around Elaine, Arkansas, there are members of the white community who believe that the sheriff and his posse acted within appropriate means to prevent a mass slaughter that the African American community was planning. The failure to remember and mourn the hundreds of innocent people who died means that another similar massacre could happen.
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“Sharecropping,” by history.com editors. History.com. June 7, 2019.
“The Red Summer of 1919 in U.S. Cities,” by Femi Lewis. ThoughtCo. July 7, 2019.
“Reliving the brutal Elaine Massacre 100 years later” New York Post.
