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Elaine is a small town in Phillips County, Arkansas, United States, in the Arkansas Delta region of the Mississippi River. The population was 636 at the 2010 census . The city is best known as the location of the Elaine massacre of September 30 – October 1, 1919, in which an estimated 237 black people were killed in the rural ...
Elaine es una ciudad en el condado de Phillips, Arkansas, Estados Unidos. Para el censo de 2000 la población era de 865 habitantes. 2 . Geografía. Elaine se localiza a 34°18′31″N 90°51′15″O. De acuerdo a la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, la ciudad tiene un área total de 1,3 km², de los cuales el 100% es tierra. Demografía.
- Ciudad de Estados Unidos
- 1,32 km²
The Elaine massacre occurred on September 30 – October 2, 1919, at Hoop Spur in the vicinity of Elaine in rural Phillips County, Arkansas where African Americans were organizing against peonage and abuses in tenant farming. As many as several hundred African Americans and five white men were killed. [4]
- September 30, 1919
- Residents of Phillips County, Arkansas
- 100–237 black people, 5 white people
- Hoop Spur, Phillips County, Arkansas, U.S.
14 de mar. de 2024 · The Elaine Massacre was by far the deadliest racial confrontation in Arkansas history and possibly the bloodiest racial conflict in the history of the United States.
16 de jun. de 2023 · The name of Elaine (Phillips County) will always be linked with a race massacre that broke out in the fall of 1919, leaving scores of African Americans dead. Aside from this one memorable incident, the city is representative of life in the Delta region that includes eastern Arkansas.
- 0.51 square miles (2020 Census)
- 34º18’30″N 090º51’07″W
- 171 feet
- 509 (2020 Census)
30 de sept. de 2019 · Share full article. By Nan Elizabeth Woodruff. Dr. Woodruff is a historian and the author of “American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta.” One hundred years ago this week,...
The Elaine Museum and Richard Wright Civil Rights Center is located in Elaine, Arkansas, the site of the Elaine Massacre of 1919. The small delta town is now being rebranded as the Motherland of Civil Rights, using heritage tourism to the tell stories of all the peoples in the Arkansas delta.
