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The history of the race massacre in Elaine, Arkansas, has always been contested.
It is widely accepted that in 1919, a group of white men, with the backing of federal troops, tortured and killed scores of Black residents - the exact number is disputed but assumed to number at least in the hundreds - who were starting to organize against the exploitation of their labor. The massacre came at the tail end of what would become known as the red summer", a season of racial terror fueled by white resentment of the strides Black people were making across the country.
Related: We want our land back': for descendants of the Elaine massacre, history is far from settled
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